Malaise undercutting my Monday

[MissMillie]

I can't put my finger on it. There's nothing really wrong, but I just feel slightly blue, and a bit nervous.

What the heck is doing this to me?

[Paradise]

1. don't mean to undermine your feelings but

i've been feeling that way since friday. :shrug:

[YellowRubberDuckie]

2. I've been feeling like this for months...

Maybe it'll end in November when Bush gets flushed down to toilet back to Texas. :evilgrin:
But here's a :hug: in the meantime. Hope you feel better.
Duckie

[BigMcLargehuge]

3. I am surprisingly unmelencholy today

I guess it's because I am super-duper busy (hence the ease of which I play hooky here at DU).

[iconoclastic cat]

4. Existential angst?

[midnight armadillo]

5. Your job? Food?

My job makes me feel like this on a daily basis.

It could be nutrition too - missing a few vitamins etc here and there or too much caffeine/sugar/crap etc can cause the blues.

[MissMillie]

9. My job has been boring lately

I poured myself a cup of coffee, but never drank it. I had a bagel w/ cc and some fresh fruit for breakfast.

[Beware the Beast Man]

6. Generalized Anxiety, maybe?

I'm actually felling quite alright today, for once.

[Mara Steele]

7. Maybe how you've been eating?

Lots of sugar, refined flours, too much coffee/alcohol?

Let me know, would like to help.

[MissMillie]

10. Well, I did drink some tequilla this weekend

actually... a little bit more than "some"

[Mara Steele]

12. See, that will do it...

You've just got the post-drunk blues.

Eat plenty of protein, soy sauce, and steamed veggies, you'll feel all right!!

:hi:

[Hell Hath No Fury]

8. Are you a woman of a certain age??

Peri/menopuase can cause the weirdest hormonal emotion states, stuff right out of the blue that makes so sense.

Am there myself this morning. :)

[MissMillie]

11. Just turned 40

I've been perimenopausal for a couple of years.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

13. Same here...

I went peri just before 40, am now 4 years in and getting my butt kicked. :)

Out of the blue "annui" or "melancholia" such as you describe can be very common with peri. You might start noting when you experience it and see if it correlates with a certain time in your cycle. Finding out if it's hormone related can be helpful and reassuring -- at least you know what you're dealing with.

I found that taking flax seed oil (1 tbl) daily during my early peri really helped with my mood (blues/crying/anger). I noticed an uplift within one week of starting.

There is a great site that saved my neck when peri started getting hairy -- http://www.power-surge.com

Women are criminally under educated on all that they can experience during this time of life and all that can be done to remedy any problems they experience.

I had always thought peri/meno just mean hot flashes/night sweats and irritability. Little did I know it could include:

Crying for no reason for three years -
Premenstrual anxiety that was so great I thought my head was going to explode -
Hot flashes so severe I wanted to run screaming -
If you're breathing you're bothering me levels of irritability -
Killer insomnia -
Fatigue like I have never felt before -
Premenstrual sensitivity to noise -
Feeling like I have a bug in my ear for weeks at a time (no joke!)
Suddenly smelling like a sweaty 13year old boy -
Low blood sugar problems -
Skin going to hell -

And a hundred other little weird-ass things that made no sense to me until I started hearing from other peri women with the exact same same problems. On edit: all of my symptoms started off very slowly and at low levels, and got worse the further I got into peri.

Power-Surge has a great listing of many of the peri symptoms that women can experience and not relate to peri. Check it out and drop by the discussion boards -- you'll be blown away.