13 PMDD Symptoms That Can Wreck Your Week (and How to Spot Them)

If your personality seems to pack up and leave for a week or two every month, you might not be “crazy”. You might just be living with PMDD.
Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (aka, PMS’s evil older sister who doesn’t know when to leave the party.)

Here are 13 real-life PMDD symptoms that can sneak up and take over your body, brain, and emotions... often without warning:

 1. Mood Swings

You can go from sunshine to storm cloud in five minutes flat. One minute you’re reorganizing your life, the next you’re crying because your socks don’t match.

 2. Hopelessness

It’s like your brain temporarily forgets that good things exist. Nothing feels worth it — not even the snacks.

 3. Irritability

Everything and everyone is suddenly annoying. Loud chewing? Jail.

 4. Crying Spells

You cry because you’re sad, then cry because you cried, then cry because you don’t know why you cried.

 5. Anger Outbursts

The kind that make you wonder if you just got temporarily possessed by a hormonal demon.

 6. Anxiety

Your brain starts inventing problems that don’t exist... just to keep things spicy as possible.

 7. Fatigue

You could sleep for twelve hours and still wake up feeling like a phone on 2%.

 8. Cravings

You’ll suddenly need chocolate, carbs, or that one weird food you never crave any other time.

 9. Bloating

You swear you just gained five pounds of pure water and regret.

 10. Brain Fog

What was I saying? Wait… what was I doing? Who even am I?

 11. Low Self-Esteem

You start questioning everything ...your looks, your goals, your entire life plan. 

 12. Conflict

You either withdraw completely or end up in a fight you didn’t even mean to start.

13. Relief After Your Period Starts

And just like that ....poof ...you feel normal again. Until next month.