Premenstrual Disorders

Chapter F ive

Case Studies

E mily Palmer’s Journal, March 14 Well, I’ve been taking the antidepressant for almost a month and things are going so much better. I never noticed that people, even teachers, avoided me during certain times of the month. Sarah and I joke about that now. She teases me about the strange looks I get every so often from someone now when I’m talking and smiling at them. When I ask her what’s going on, she tells me I always fought with those girls. It’s almost like I was this alien or something. Now that I think about it, I know how lucky I was to have Sarah to help me. I know she must have tried to make me look good as much as she could. And boy, some kids must have thought she was nuts hanging around with me. But she stuck with me, I guess because we’ve known each other since we were little, and she hoped I’d come