About periods, I've noticed that I feel worse symptoms when I get very stressed and anxious about something (like a final exam that I need to study, for example),
especially during the PMS phase. So I started to chill out when I notice that my period is about to come.
I get annoyed when I go to a doctor to complain about something and the only thing they can recommend is birth control pills. I never took those, and I don't intend to, so usually I never return. Luckily when I have a problem, it solves itself after some time.
But for women out there dealing with painful periods, remind yourself that women aren't supposed to function and work like men.
We have cycles related to the Moon, and the Moon is related also to our emotional side.
Without proper education, women can't identify which phase they are, they only count with phone apps. Their mothers also don't know anything, so the ignorance keeps repeating itself. Thankfully with the social media, there are people informing these things.
Of course, foods and herbs help too, but if there is something bothering you and you have been ignoring your feelings all the rest of the month, during the period phase it will all go out and wreck you.
Women out there are popping pills, cutting out their period because they think it's disgusting, and thinking it is normal to ignore their own body for the sake of working more (thinking it is normal for a women to be working 9 to 5, 24/7, only using her left side of the brain), making more money, buying more useless stuff, and praising their independence. Then they have nasty periods and think it is normal for a women to feel this way. Women are supposed to be using their creative side, the feminine needs to be playful, flowing like water, not stuck inside a box. I see women out thinking that chilling out is just coming home and watching Netflix, binging useless TV shows that brings nothing to their lives. Then they mock the ones that are coloring books, painting, making jewelry with beads, saying that it is "childish", that adults should be reading "dark romance" books.