The beginning of the rest of my life…

Today, August 5th, is my PMDD referral. I am scared, excited, hopeful and dread-filled. Dread-filled because what if they don’t listen, can’t help, don’t get it? I’ve already written a post about this on quick press and then completely lost it which maybe means that I was saying too much.  Then again it might just have been one [...]

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Breaking up is hard to do

Life is hard right now.  My PMDD seems to have been taking over and I’ve been sinking into the kind of low that leaves me questioning so many things. The kind that leaves a constant prickling behind the eyes and an ache in the heart.  The kind that makes every day a trawl. At the same [...]

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Can buy me love

When my Miss E went to the fabulous Forbidden Corner for a friend’s birthday she brought me back a gift. I never expected one and I’m sure she didn’t go with the intention of spending some of her savings on me, but she did. When she arrived home, tired, happy, grubby and slightly  soggy, she placed [...]

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PMDD is not all of me

Just because I have an illness that can hurl me deep into depression, it does not mean it rules my life all the time. Just because I have a condition that can affect my moods and judgment, it does not mean my thoughts and feelings should be dismissed. Just because sometimes my hormones make me scatty, forgetful, [...]

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That Sinking Feeling

Sometimes the lows just hit when you’re least expecting them.  You’re flying along so fast, barely able to take in the scenery when, woomph.  It’s been fairly gentle this descent, a soft yet smothering pillow about the head rather than the obvious brick, but sometimes obvious is better.  You can’t fight the obvious.  You can’t [...]

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