Menstrual pain and its psychological impact

 Some women complain about the pain of the menstrual cycle and the psychological impact on it. The bad mood that the woman suffers from during that period is primarily due to the loss of blood during the menstrual cycle and the hormonal imbalance that occurs during the period.

Menstrual pain and its psychological impact

Many girls, especially in the first days of menstruation, suffer from some pain, some of which may be possible and others intolerable. , which affects the reproductive health of the girl in the future.

The pain that the girl feels during that period is often related to a change in hormones that affects the whole body. The menstrual cycle has a clear effect on fluid retention in the body, which leads to swelling of the feet and ankles, and increases the girl’s feeling of bloating, which negatively affects her psychological state as well.

The effect of the menstrual cycle on the psyche of a woman

During her life, a woman is exposed to many hormonal changes, which clearly affect her psyche and mood in general, and during the period of the menstrual cycle, women's hormones change clearly, which affects them - also - and among the most famous reasons that affect the condition of women during that period are as follows :

• Hormonal changes, due to a lack of progesterone and an imbalance between it and estrogen, a woman experiences a pronounced change in mood.
• Chemical changes, women are also exposed - during this period - to a change in the hormone serotonin, and its deficiency is primarily responsible for the appearance of symptoms of depression.
• Genetic factor. We may note that members of the same family may suffer from depression and mood changes during the menstrual cycle for no apparent reason.

Symptoms of the psychological impact of the menstrual cycle on women

Women show many symptoms that indicate the bad psychological impact of menstruation, and the most famous symptoms that women suffer during that period are as follows:

• Women feel more depressed and irritable signs.
• Some women also suffer from a state of extreme lethargy and laziness with increased cravings for sleep.
• Some women experience an open appetite and eat more food during the menstrual cycle, which affects weight, and others experience a loss of appetite, which affects the mood negatively as well.
• Women become more sensitive to situations during this period through excessive nervousness or crying over the simplest reasons.
• Severe headaches with general weakness in focusing on studying or anything, and we find that some women resort to crying to get out of that bad feeling, especially when it comes to studying or academic achievement in general.

Many doctors confirm that there is no danger in the case of these symptoms on a woman except in the case of previous family history, especially if there was violence or abuse resulting from the woman's exposure to these symptoms.