Dysphoric

No one talks about the dysphoric part of premenstrual dysphoric disorder. All that gets talked about is the rage, which is a huge component lol. The dysphoria, though, is soooo weird and random. It makes 0 sense when I’m not in the PMDD fog, but while I’m in it, it’s all I can focus on. And it can be literally anything. A word or phrase someone said that is otherwise completely benign, or I watch the wrong TV show or movie or read something, whatever that can trigger it. Now, it’s only like 1-2 days of extreme irritability, thankfully, since we upped my meds. Day 1 of it is still extremely irritable, but definitely not straight-up rage like it was. And it’s been the day before my period starts, which is interesting to me that it’s been that reliable since the meds;🤔 usually once it starts, I get all lovey-dovey lol, which is new and feels really awkward. Never experienced that before lol, better than the other end of the spectrum though, I guess. It’s following a more normal pattern, I guess, in any case.