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Just to give an overview, Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) is the duration just 7-10 days before the actual menstruation date which is full of vicissitudes and instability; physical, mental as well as emotional. PMS brings with itself a wide variety of symptoms, including mood swings, tender breasts, food cravings, fatigue, irritability and depression.
Those who missed my age in the previous blogs; I am 33 and what is happening to me now has never happened during my PMS. I have always heard from my friends that a woman’s body undergoes a lot of hormonal changes after marriage and I feel now I am experiencing all of them one by one. I got married last year and I encountered horrible UTI (Urinary Tract Infection), uncontrollable sweet cravings and now these unpredictable mood swings during my PMS.
Honestly, I never had such bad mood swings before marriage but this time what is happening to me is on another level.
I am not telling something that happened in the past, it is today’s incident. Owing to my sweet cravings, I gained 5-6 kgs and I started working out in the morning to get back into shape. I woke up at 6:15 am and completed my workout session by 7:15 am. I took my bath, did the household chores and got ready for the office as usual. It takes almost 1 hour 15 min for me to reach the office, therefore I generally leave home by 9am.
I started booking the cab till metro station from three different applications and all of them initially showed me the vehicle. One canceled, second canceled and even the third too. I kept crying continuously till 9:25 am but the applications kept searching for the drivers. There I got my first emotional breakdown. I started crying like hell and my husband got scared seeing me in that state. Since I was getting late, he tried booking the cab and finally we got one at 9:35 am.
Wait! It didn’t get over. I reached the office and was feeling a little better. I work in a Diplomatic Mission; my diplomat called me and my colleagues to plan for his birthday tomorrow and asked me to bring a chair. As I cried a hell lot since morning, it was visible on my face. He asked me about my agenda for the day and my tears came rolling down.
Again, I cried for almost 10-15 min. No no no…. it is not over yet. Since I am on a mission to shed some weight, I ordered fruit yogurt for myself. The moment I opened the box, it was full of malai (clotted cream originating from milk) and it made me cry again. I was crying at the loudest of my voice.
Stop…. don’t go… there is still more. Also, I work with a magazine as Creative Director. One of the team members received the hard copy of the recent edition and she shared that the printing is not to the Mark, the colors have faded, margins got disturbed, content is not proper and a lot more mistakes. You all know now what happened the next moment… I bursted into tears again.
I am talking about this kind of emotional breakdown during PMS. I mean how bad one’s mood swings can be during PMS?
I know people might laugh reading this but today what I experienced is really bad. I am sure women who have gone through such a situation will understand me better. It’s very difficult for a woman to control her hormones during PMS. I don’t know what made me write this but I wanted to share it with my readers.
Smriti Malhotra is a Delhi girl and an avid dreamer. She works at the Embassy of the Republic of Congo by profession but is a writer by passion. She began writing while at school and read more...
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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