Parenting is hard. Raging temper (I have one) is so inexcusable and yet so reasonably justified at the same time. PMS hormones suck.
I've not had PMS in a decade thanks to my lovely low dose monophasic birth control bill (which I switched to after my old trusty ortho 7/7/7 turned on me) except for the last few months. Which turns out that I may be perimenopausal and so now have years of PMS-ish ahead of me again. I have taken to wearing my old "PMS bracelete" - which is something I used to always do: a special piece of jewelry (for me a bracellete) that you only wear during your PMS time, put it on when you know it should be coming around (but before you have it) and KEEP IT ON. Serves as a visual reminder to others and yourself that you may be a little .... over reactive. I found it particularly useful as a reminder to myself: "even though this homocidal anger at Jim seems perfectly reasonable to me, I'm going to trust the bracelette that maybe... just MAYBE it is not ... and step off for a bit". It helped me keep a check on my anger that, say, counting to ten did not.
Usually when I'm PMSing I can keep it to yelling. Which is also not that great, but it's better than smacking someone upside the head. Literally. They just caught me off my game tonight.
I like the jewelry idea. I wonder if I can find something that won't make my eczema worse? Hmm. I'll have to look into that.
Parenting is hard. Raging temper (I have one) is so inexcusable and yet so reasonably justified at the same time. PMS hormones suck.
I've not had PMS in a decade thanks to my lovely low dose monophasic birth control bill (which I switched to after my old trusty ortho 7/7/7 turned on me) except for the last few months. Which turns out that I may be perimenopausal and so now have years of PMS-ish ahead of me again. I have taken to wearing my old "PMS bracelete" - which is something I used to always do: a special piece of jewelry (for me a bracellete) that you only wear during your PMS time, put it on when you know it should be coming around (but before you have it) and KEEP IT ON. Serves as a visual reminder to others and yourself that you may be a little .... over reactive. I found it particularly useful as a reminder to myself: "even though this homocidal anger at Jim seems perfectly reasonable to me, I'm going to trust the bracelette that maybe... just MAYBE it is not ... and step off for a bit". It helped me keep a check on my anger that, say, counting to ten did not.
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I like the jewelry idea. I wonder if I can find something that won't make my eczema worse? Hmm. I'll have to look into that.
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