Contents:
- Medical Video: Yoga for Mood Swings - Yoga With Adriene
- The various mood changes that you experience throughout the menstrual cycle
- Days 1 to 5 (during menstruation)
- Day 5 to 14 (menstruation is over and before the fertile period)
- Day 14 to 25 (fertile period)
- 25th to 28th day (PMS period)
- Mood turmoil during menstruation that quickly changes increases the risk of women experiencing depression
Medical Video: Yoga for Mood Swings - Yoga With Adriene
Almost every woman becomes more sensitive during menstruation. One time you feel happy, at other times you can sob or burst into anger, then return to stability - all these emotional turmoil you can feel alternately in one day. Have you ever wondered why the mood of menstruation is easily changed?
The various mood changes that you experience throughout the menstrual cycle
Although researchers don't know exactly why women become more sensitive during menstruation, the emotional turmoil that you feel is suspected to occur as a side effect of hormone tides before and during the menstrual cycle.
Approximately, this is the details of mood changes that you might experience - starting from the first day of menstruation, during menstruation, and after.
Days 1 to 5 (during menstruation)
Reporting from Shape, Louann Brizendine, M.D., a neurobiologist from the University of California, said that the mood during the first day of menstruation tends to be stable because the levels of the three hormones that regulate your cycle, namely estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone, are equally balanced. Even so, the brain will increase the production of prostaglandin compounds that make stomach cramps and nausea in these first days.
In the first five days of menstruation, the brain will gradually producing more estrogen and testosterone which then stimulates the production of endorphins. Endorphins are happy hormones which are also useful as natural pain relievers. That is why various PMS symptoms will gradually disappear as long as you menstruate so that the mood also increases.
Day 5 to 14 (menstruation is over and before the fertile period)
On your last few days of menstruation, estrogen will increase dramatically until 14 days later. This aims to prepare the body to enter the next fertile period, as well as to prepare the uterus just in caseif fertilization occurs.
In addition to stabilizing moods, an increase in estrogen during this period also increases a number of cognitive functions of your brain. Women tend to be more alias alias easy to socialize, more focused on doing things, more energetic, faster to make decisions, and more subtle before the fertile period. Women's sex drive also increases sharply because testosterone levels peak just before the fertile period. No wonder many women feel very sexy and attractive at this time.
Interestingly, a study revealed that women's competitive instincts also surged in the fertile period due to an increase in testosterone. Hmmm ... Maybe this is why you more easy to feel if you want to menstruate, yes!
Day 14 to 25 (fertile period)
During the most fertile period, most women tend more interested in seeing men who have masculine faces, said sa study from the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University. You also tend to be more sexually active, whether it's more often having sex with a partner or masturbating.
At this time, your estrogen count is still very high. Same studyshows that an increase in estrogen also affects the part of the brain called the hypocampus, so your memory becomes sharper and you also process new information faster.
After the fertile period ends and there are no signs of fertilization,estrogen and testosterone levels will go back down. Begin you feel the mood up and down, although sometimes not so obvious. At the same time, the decrease in both hormones causes the brain to work down so you tend easier to forget and lack of communication skills.
25th to 28th day (PMS period)
When there isn'tfertilized egg, the body will prepare to release it through menstruation. At this time the progesterone and estrogen levels will be the lowest. Instead, the brain will release a high amount of stress hormone cortisol which gives rise to various PMS symptoms, such as headache, lack of sleep, lethargy and lack of energy, until the turmoil fluctuates in mood when menstruation will arrive.
But, you dont have to worry. This condition will not last long, because the hormone estrogen will start to rise again once you start menstruating. PMS symptoms that haunt you will also decrease. This pattern of mood changes will reoccur before the time of your next menstruation.
Mood turmoil during menstruation that quickly changes increases the risk of women experiencing depression
Menstrual hormone changes every month can change the chemical balance in the brain and risk serious emotional disturbances, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience.
These changes are reported to increase a woman's risk of anxiety and depression. Not to mention the added daily stress that is not related to PMS symptoms, this can also worsen the bad mood during menstruation.
Even so, researchers don't know exactly how exactly estrogen and progesterone affect brain nerve cells so that it can cause anxiety. So far, researchers only know that hormone tides that are too extreme make some women more susceptible to severe anxiety disorders and depressive behavior within a week before menstruation, which can be categorized as premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD).
PMDD is a more extreme mood disorder than just a bad mood during menstruation in general. In certain cases, women who are affected by this disorder are even at higher risk of experiencing depression until attempting suicide.
