Can Pms Make Anxiety Worse?

[Saint Nik]

It must be an awful thing to go through

It is! It already affects a females body chemistry and so does PTSD.
But. . .tonight I notice a huge progress in me from last month! :tup:

Sorry to hear about your daughter struggling.

 

[StarChild]

Has any other ladies experienced this too ?

No, fortunately, I never had to struggle with such or any other issues. and although I'm not a young cookie anymore, my menstruation is still very regular, like it was all my life. It was very important to me, to have a good relationship to my femininity and my feminine parts. Example: I gave my uterus a name, to address her, when "she" starts to "act out a bit", as I would call it. Another example would be, that I always embraced the start of every menses I had and still have. It's a time, where I treat myself with care: Enjoying a candle light bath, use a skin smoothing body oil made of pure melted sheabutter mixed with cacao butter. (Especially on my breasts, outer vulva and my uterus through my abdominal wall. That way I'm able to massage my uterus through it, which clearly ceases the cramps).

So the 2, or 3 days before and during my menses is simply "me-time" which I enjoy. And by the way, because of my personal history, I never wanted children and never had them. But that doesn't define whether I enjoy my sexuality or being female. As I see the physical part of my femininity not as segregated, but as a supplement to my feminine identity as a whole.

But I get horny

Oh yeah, this one I know (and enjoy) all to well... It's either right before my menses but also around the ovulation. That also never changed my whole life through. Had lots of fun...:p

Hate being female.

And this, as I see it, could clearly contribute to your female issues. The more you hate your own femininity, the more out of inner balance it gets. It's kind of a vicious cycle. I once had a very good friend. But she hated her breasts, her uterus and all other "damned fu**ing female parts", as she used to address them. So I wasn't surprised when I learned, that she got breast cancer, and 3 years later she also got cervical cancer. During this time, she was all bitter and was swearing and cussing those parts/organs... We then lost contact. And I'm not even sure, whether she's still alive or not. As there is no sign of her on the web or elsewhere....

The question in the title of your thread goes: Can pms make anxiety worse? I'd say, why not asking the other way round: Can anxiety and the fact that you hate being a female contribute to the "progression" of the pms issues?...

 

[Saint Nik]

I once had a very good friend. But she hated her breasts, her uterus and all other "damned fu**ing female parts", as she used to address them. So I wasn't surprised to hear, that she got breast cancer, and 3 years later she also got cervical cancer. During this time, she was all swearing and cussing those parts/organs... We then lost contact. And I'm not even sure, whether she's still alive or not. As there is no sign of her on the web or elsewhere....

Are you seriously saying she brought cancer on herself? Can I challenge that thinking with children who get leukemia then? Why do they get such cancer? Or even babies? Are they not acceptant of their body parts either?
I don't know if you have seen one gentleman on the news. Last year, I think it was. His name was Stephen Sutton. The man was a very positive character, did so much for his charity, raised millions, was even honoured by the queen, was looking forward to a bright future in becoming a doctor, an oncologist in fact. Guess what? He got bowel cancer. Was this because he wanted to study cancer to help cancer victims? That young man died at the young and tender age of 17, and he still continued to work for his charity until he died. He remained positive and updated his social media right up until he died. Did he maybe hate his bowels then? Did he have an issue with them to get cancer?

I also found online:
Recent findings from a team of American researchers indicate that the severity of women’s PTSD symptoms typically changes throughout the normal course of the monthly menstrual cycle.

After analyzing the gathered data, the researchers concluded that women’s trauma reactions are significantly more severe during the follicular phase of menstruation. This finding applies to psychological symptoms.

 

[StarChild]

My goodness, your response, no reaction to my post comes across as very angry and aggressive. By the way, I'm a sufferer too. And I tried to share what I have experienced and witnessed with this former very good friend of mine. But really, the way you reacted to my genuine post (on which I carefully wrote more than one hour) and in which I shared very personal facts with you, gives me just one desire; to leave this thread.

If you're not seeing what it was, that I wanted to share with you, but instead start to make indirect accusations, and even jump to conclusions, and all this in a quite aggressive manner, I don't see any possibility for a positive outcome, in a further discussion with you.

Go, and "teach" others, as you already tried to, in some of your other threads...

 

[Saint Nik]

very angry and aggressive.

What did I say in such a way?
I was asking questions and hoping for you to answer them in your reply! Or were you looking for an argument because you feel I. . .

Go, and "teach" others, as you already tried to, in some of your other threads...

I am not feeling angry or aggressive in any way. Nor did I feel that way when I typed my reply to you. They are genuine questions. I have re-read my post more than twice. Can you please point out exactly what I said was angry or aggressive please?