02/26/2026
My mental health was truly horrible throughout my teenage years and early 20s. For years, I was told it was “just hormones,” “just mood,” or “just in my head.”
I want to be clear: PMDD and BPD are real, valid diagnoses that many people truly live with and they are not always connected to endometriosis.
But in my case, they became blanket labels that stopped the search for deeper answers. I knew something in my body wasn’t right and that I wasn’t “just emotional.”
I knew the pain, fatigue, GI issues, and cyclical crashes meant something more. It took 12+ years to discover deep infiltrating endometriosis and autoimmune disease.
This post isn’t about blaming mental health care. It’s about what happens when physical symptoms in women are minimized, psychologized, or not fully investigated.