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We don't get a sick leave for Premenstrual Syndrome. It doesn't show up on a thermometer, and gets us out of our chores and work!
It feels like everything in your life has suddenly become so difficult. Nothing seems to be going right.
Everything irks you and I mean everything — people talking, phone ringing, the daily chores, getting out of bed! One minute you are trying to be happy and the next your heart sinks into deep despair. You feel like you are about to lose it, no matter how much you are trying to keep it together.
You want someone to love you, comfort you, but the catch is you can’t stand anyone right now. And you are reminded of everything that is going wrong in your life — things which you made peace with, people about whom you stopped caring about, regrets that you have let go. Everything comes back to haunt you.
A huge sadness looms over you like a dark, heavy cloud. It could drench your entire being and those around you, if it bursts. I like to call it the Dementors, as it really sucks out the happiness from your life.
And all of this is just the mental part of it. There is that chronic fatigue too, where your body just feels too heavy to even move, and the random flashes — how can you forget them! One minute you are shivering from cold under your blanket and the next you are hot as a pan, sweating like a pig as if your whole body is on fire.
So this what PMS feels like more and less. This is what every three in four women feel like every twenty-eight days, more and less.
It’s not a sickness that you can get a sick leave for. This is not something which shows up on a thermometer, and gets you out of your chores and work. This is not something which you can talk to everyone about.
Most men won’t be even able to comprehend it, because they most likely have never heard about it. Because their mothers had never mentioned it to them, for whatever reasons.
I feel this is the time to educate people around us of what we go through every month! We should let them know how we need to need their compassion and their kindness, through these difficult times. Because even Harry couldn’t fight with the Death Eaters alone!
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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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