Mood Swings
6 articles on this topic
Big Feelings Before Your Period Starts: A Girl's Guide
Suddenly feeling like crying, or your heart racing, even before your period has started? Here is why puberty stirs up big emotions and gentle ways to ride the waves.
Soso Answers: cramps, blood colors, and more (July 17 to 24)
Real questions girls asked this week, painful cramps, brown blood, packing pads, big mood swings, and yellow discharge, answered warmly and honestly.
Big Feelings About Your Period: A Girl's Guide to the Emotional Side
Hating your period, dreading it, or wishing it would come, every one of those feelings is normal. A girl's guide to the emotional side, plus ways to feel steadier.
Cramps, Clots and Other Period Symptoms: What Is Normal?
This week you asked about cramps, blood clots, headaches, nausea and tender breasts. Here is what is normal, what helps, and when it is worth telling a grown-up.
Dealing with Tough Days
Some days period feelings hit hard, and that's okay. Here are gentle, real ways to get through the harder moments, one small step at a time.
Understanding Period Moods
If your feelings seem to ride a rollercoaster some weeks, you're not imagining it. Here's how your hormones shape your moods, and how to ride the waves.