u/girlthisbella

Hi! I’m looking for any resources on supporting partners with pmdd. I’ve been with my partner for a little over a year and the pattern of my pmdd has had a slowly progressing impact on our dynamic and mutual feelings of security.

It feels like during my luteal phase everything we have built gets chipped away at by my hypersensitivity and it’s causing him to feel like he’s in trouble all the time or like he never knows what’s going to trigger a reaction out of me.

The rest of the month we have a strong dynamic but I feel I spend a lot of my energy rebuilding and convincing myself that I’m not going to ruin everything we have built.

This morning he told me that at this point he wants some real, credible resources for how he can better understand and support me during this time, as well as resources to help him feel better supported.

TYIA, TLDR: desperate for resources on supporting partners with PMDD

I can literally feel when it’s changing my whole personality. It’s ruining my life.

Hi everyone! I’m starting to set up my classroom for a group of children ages 2–2.5 at my new school. The program is very well funded, but the classroom is in need of a good clean-out and a thoughtful refresh of materials.

Our school is transitioning toward a more Reggio inspired approach, so as I’m sorting through existing materials and art supplies, I’d love to hear your recommendations.

Are there any materials, loose parts, studio supplies, books, furnishings, or everyday items that have become staples in your toddler classroom? Anything you added that made a meaningful difference?

I’d love to hear what you wouldn’t want to be without. Thanks so much!

Im on 200mg of lamotrigine and my OCD and Depression during luteal are ruining my life. What’s the solution???

I’m on 150 mg for PMDD about to increase to 200. But I’m really struggling with more than just mood problems regarding PMDD. I wrote out how I feel and wanted to share. (TW. Suicidal ideation)

TW: Suicidal Ideation

I don’t even know how to describe what happens as soon as I enter my luteal phase of my cycle. The first day it washes over me slowly as the anxiety of what’s to come sets in. And then all at once I can’t get out of bed. I feel this debilitating need to hide from the world. To not be seen while simultaneously yearning to be seen. It is exhausting and terrifying and I can’t bring myself to get out of bed once it is here. It steals two weeks of my life from me. I don’t want to move, I don’t want to live.

I miss every person I have ever lost and feel as though every person I have now, will inevitably leave or abandon me. Tears silently stream from my eyes and I feel broken inside which forces me to rot on the outside. I would love nothing more than to get out of bed and clean my room and meal prep and go to the gym. When I wake up in the mornings it is all I want. But then I sleep instead. I sleep until I can’t sleep anymore and then I just wish I was dead.

I don’t know how to make it go away, it is absolutely insufferable and I cannot escape it no matter how hard I work. I just don’t have the motivation, energy, or reward I need from taking care of myself. I feel so much shame over it, so much embarrassment. I lash out at the people who love me and it only makes it worse. Some days it feels like no matter what I say or do, I will never come out of it, I will never have the right words of behaviors or mentality to escape it.

And then I bleed and this tragic pathetic person goes away and I feel like myself again, left in the rubble and destruction of my monthly depression. Trying to pick up the pieces and begging the world around me to forgive me. To love me.

I spend so much time tearing everything apart, rebuilding, driving everyone around me crazy, and spiraling down into a pit of despair that I can’t claw my way out without hurting someone else or myself in the process. I want to drown, I want to die. And then for the two remaining weeks of my cycle, all I want to do is live, all I want to do is love. I am so tired, I am so scared I will never break this cycle, I am so scared I will never amount to the person I want to be.

I am so tired of this holding me back unendingly. The tears just keep streaming but in the back of my mind I know I am fine. Everything is fine. I just can’t get out of bed. I just can’t take care of myself no matter how prepared or capable I know that I am. I am so tired but I can’t keep sleeping. I can’t break out of this. I can’t find the momentum. I’m sad and I’m pissed. Because I know it will all go away in 10 days from now.

TW: Suicidal Ideation

I don’t even know how to describe what happens as soon as I enter my luteal phase of my cycle. The first day it washes over me slowly as the anxiety of what’s to come sets in. And then all at once I can’t get out of bed. I feel this debilitating need to hide from the world. To not be seen while simultaneously yearning to be seen. It is exhausting and terrifying and I can’t bring myself to get out of bed once it is here. It steals two weeks of my life from me. I don’t want to move, I don’t want to live.

I miss every person I have ever lost and feel as though every person I have now, will inevitably leave or abandon me. Tears silently stream from my eyes and I feel broken inside which forces me to rot on the outside. I would love nothing more than to get out of bed and clean my room and meal prep and go to the gym. When I wake up in the mornings it is all I want. But then I sleep instead. I sleep until I can’t sleep anymore and then I just wish I was dead.

I don’t know how to make it go away, it is absolutely insufferable and I cannot escape it no matter how hard I work. I just don’t have the motivation, energy, or reward I need from taking care of myself. I feel so much shame over it, so much embarrassment. I lash out at the people who love me and it only makes it worse. Some days it feels like no matter what I say or do, I will never come out of it, I will never have the right words of behaviors or mentality to escape it.

And then I bleed and this tragic pathetic person goes away and I feel like myself again, left in the rubble and destruction of my monthly depression. Trying to pick up the pieces and begging the world around me to forgive me. To love me.

I spend so much time tearing everything apart, rebuilding, driving everyone around me crazy, and spiraling down into a pit of despair that I can’t claw my way out without hurting someone else or myself in the process. I want to drown, I want to die. And then for the two remaining weeks of my cycle, all I want to do is live, all I want to do is love. I am so tired, I am so scared I will never break this cycle, I am so scared I will never amount to the person I want to be.

I am so tired of this holding me back unendingly. The tears just keep streaming but in the back of my mind I know I am fine. Everything is fine. I just can’t get out of bed. I just can’t take care of myself no matter how prepared or capable I know that I am. I am so tired but I can’t keep sleeping. I can’t break out of this. I can’t find the momentum. I’m sad and I’m pissed. Because I know it will all go away in 10 days from now.

Hi! Looking for some advice on freezing my digital card so I can work on paying off my card without access to spending! My physical card is frozen. Just looking to freeze the whole account. TIA! (: