Everytime I feel particularly nervous, easily agitated and overly emotional for no apparent reason, I calculate whereabouts I am in my cycle so that I can blame it all on hormones. As much as I hate the stigma that’s attached to female moodiness in correlation with PMS, I find it an easier pill to swallow than any other explanation. Any other explanation(s) being that I’m afraid of confronting an emotionally turbulent situation or that I’m simply “unbalanced”. Besides, hormones are a hell of a lot easier to forgive by most people’s standards: “She’s not really bitchy, she’s just hormonal.” “Oh, ok.”