51 Signs You Are PMS-ing Way Too Hard Right Now
By Anna Gragert
- You wake up crying.
- You go to bed… crying.
- After you get out of bed, you want to get right back in bed for the rest of the
day week monthyear. - Someone says something that would not ordinarily bother you and it bothers you, constantly, for the rest of the week/your life.
- You go right from disliking someone to contemplating homicide.
- You start laughing and you end up blubbering while your tears form a puddle on the floor.
- Your body feels like it is about to walk off without your soul intact.
- When people ask you how you are, you simply reply, “I’m sick.”
- You look in the mirror and hate everything that you see.
- All of the sudden, you cannot stand being single and say things like, “I’M GOING TO BE ALONE FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER.”
- You can’t watch a movie because you know that it will make you cry, even if it is about the life cycle of a tree.
- All you want to eat is sugar and salt.
- When people try to cheer you up, you just glare back at them until they shy away.
- Cabin fever becomes a reality and you feel claustrophobic even though you are outside and nothing is surrounding you.
- You start feeling nostalgic about weird things, like the time that you ran around naked in your front yard when you were 5.
- Quitting your job — or dropping out of school to become a shaman — seems completely reasonable.
- You feel too many emotions to form words, so you just moan and make weird sounds to convey how you feel.
- Impulsiveness becomes your best friend.
- You want to spend all of your money on random things because You. Just. Do. Not. Care. Anymore.
- To make it obvious that you no longer care, you sprawl yourself on the floor, in the bathtub, or on the table for all to see.
- You imagine that your life is a moody indie flick and you take pictures with that thought in mind (bonus points if you make them your profile picture).
- Trying to contain yourself as you start to throw your phone or computer out the window becomes impossible.
- When people offer you advice, you respond by either crying or saying, “Yeah? Well, you don’t understand me.”
- No one understands you.
- Things that never appealed to you before start to appeal to you, like beef jerky, online dating, or anything with fringe on it.
- “I think I’m going to become a more spiritual person” is your new catchphrase.
- You use the word “literally” every other word.
- You literally feel that you need more feng shui in your life. Literally.
- Reality television cannot even make you feel better about yourself.
- Even though it is impossible, you start to think that you are pregnant and state, matter-of-factly, “I’m going to have the second Immaculate Conception.”
- Girl Scout cookies. You want them right this second. Even those weird coconut ones that you always hated.
- Every one of your sentences starts with, “Listen…” or “I just don’t understand why…”
- All of your decisions in life seem wrong. Dead wrong. Like that time you bought light-up sneakers for the first day of preschool.
- You want to adopt every animal in sight. Nothing is off limits, including that gopher thing on the side of the road.
- Weird ensembles feel right on you. Example: rain boots, a wedding dress, green lipstick, and a tiara.
- When people don’t message you back right away, you consider that a personal offense and you vow that you will never talk to that person again.
- Everything out of the ordinary feels like a sign from God that you will soon find your life’s purpose. Specifically, fortune cookies and those inspirational sayings on tea bags definitely apply only to you.
- You want to throw out everything that you have ever loved and start fresh.
- You have a sudden urge to sit out on your front porch and contemplate the meaning of life.
- Your mom calls. You answer the phone saying, “Mom? I think I’m dying.”
- That man looked at you the wrong way. There must be something wrong with you. Are you not good enough for him?
- A ratty blanket, men’s knee socks, milk chocolate, and tea become your lifetime essentials.
- Feeling sentimental, you seek out old schoolmates and apologize for random things that you did ten years ago.
- Everything that WebMD tells you becomes 100% accurate. You don’t need a doctor to tell you how to live your life.
- You make an appointment with a therapist, psychic, herbalist, and nutritionist because you want to try new things.
- You post an inspirational quote every five minutes on all of your social media platforms. Not for your followers, but for yourself.
- It’s too cold, so you start looking at houses in the desert.
- Concepts like “happiness” and “calmness” no longer exist.
- You have the sudden urge to sit on someone’s lap and have them braid your hair.
- Clearly, your pets are the only ones who truly love you.
- If anyone mentions the word “hormonal” around you, they become Public Enemy #1.