[ SECRET POST #2967 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2967 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I get what you mean, but I'm kind of "ehhhhh" on the phraseology of "psychotic" when you seem to mean, "very much in pain, and with a short tolerance for any bullshit while in this amount of pain".

Because here's the thing: I do have psychotic episodes, related to my epilepsy, which all happen around my menstrual cycle and its fluctuating hormone levels. (It's called catamenial epilepsy, in case anyone wants the term.)

I've had bad periods, crampy periods that are so painful I've stopped whatever I'm doing and bent double because the pain is so intense. This is a very different experience from when I am having paranoid delusions and hallucinating black shadows moving around me.

One is very painful, and the other is terrifying and makes you question your very existence and the fabric of reality.

I don't intend to mitigate the amount of pain you feel, but trust me. Being in pain because of cramps doesn't equal actual psychosis.

Otherwise, I am with you 100% in better representation on what women actual go through during menses. It would help de-stigmatize a lot of issues.

OP here

[(Anonymous)]

So, that's actually the point.

Someone is acting out of sorts on their period. Maybe it's because they're having an actual psychotic episode. Maybe they're having debilitating pain. I've had the physical symptoms, but I have a friend who always had to be on the pill because he showed the severe mental symptoms.

But, if you'll notice, it gets conflated in the media. It's just like "Man, bitches be crazy" whenever a woman is mildly grumpy as opposed to "I WOULD MAINLINE HEROINE NOW IF IT WERE HERE" or "Fucking seriously I need help right now." It just gets all mixed together as "lady problems" and is *mysterious* and *arcane*, the things that *men weren't meant to know*

Which is dumb because we can both say that this stuff is real.