When I am not in my luteal phase, I love life. And then it all comes crashing down: I want to leave my job, break up with my partner, ignore my friends. I struggle to share this experience with anyone or ask for help because the condition is chronically under-recognised and under-researched. Sometimes I even trick myself into thinking maybe it isn’t real. I increasingly feel I am burdening my partner as they are almost the only person I can be totally myself with.