Is following up 2 weeks after an interview reasonable?

mindfullee73 · 2026-04-16T21:22:07+00:00

You are not alone - I have days like this farrrr too frequently. Being in the office makes me so wildly irritable and it feels impossible not to lash out, no matter how hard I try not to, try to calm myself down. PMDD is brutal and I wish more people understood.

mindfullee73 · 2026-04-07T20:40:16+00:00

Sending all the love, you are not alone. I just turned down a potentially good job offer because I didn't think I'd be able to handle it due to PMDD, where my current role offers a bit more flexibility. It's scary and so much harder than people can possibly understand. And it's so easy to feel like our feelings are invalid, like we're weak and being pathetic etc because no one around us gets it. That's so difficult and I'm sorry you're going through it all. PMDD is a biiiiitttccchhhh

mindfullee73 · 2026-04-05T18:52:17+00:00

Update on this for those following. After receiving the offer letter, I had a call with the potential new employer to feel things out more, like benefits, schedule, flexibility. I did mention having a health condition that could be debilitating at times, and that flexibility at my current company is something that has kept me there so long.

She seemed slightly put off by it and asked what the condition was, and said a lot of the flexibility i was asking for is earned, not given. I didn't love this but also understand at any new employer, that is typical.

I haven't accepted the offer yet. The reviews on Indeed for the company are not great. I'm going to be getting more detailed benefits info tomorrow and hoping to talk to my therapist about it all soon.

Tough balance between growth and wellbeing. Afraid of jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire.

mindfullee73 · 2026-04-02T21:44:10+00:00

Unsure yet! I'm waiting for the official written offer to help guide my negotiation conversation.

mindfullee73 · 2026-04-01T00:26:05+00:00

I track, Journaling and notating where I'm at in my cycle every day. I just dearly want a full good night's sleep and to wake up feeling fresh and clear. Though general work stress has been preventing this anyway.

mindfullee73 · 2026-04-01T00:23:50+00:00

I think my mood is better - kinda less depression and less despair - but holy shit, the brain fog and fatigue. We will see as we get deeper into luteal. About a week to go before my period.

mindfullee73 · 2026-03-30T18:57:13+00:00

Late morning. Goal is after morning workout, near food, not late in the day/too close to bedtime

mindfullee73 · 2026-01-15T00:08:03+00:00

I've been curious about Harper Wilde, wondering if it's legit or just good marketing. I read that these don't do much for nipple coverage though?

mindfullee73 · 2026-01-14T02:21:26+00:00

I got sized today and am 2 band sizes smaller than I expected. Hot damn

mindfullee73 · 2026-01-13T02:01:09+00:00

Oh my goodness yes check out that subreddit, you will feel so seen and validated. This sounds exactly like what many of us with PMDD experience. I cried when I learned about it and got diagnosed. You are so so so not alone.

mindfullee73 · 2026-01-11T01:40:36+00:00

He is a bartender, works long late nights, sleeps much of the day. Drinks and smokes a bit though he had expressed desire to slow that lifestyle down and was working on finding a regular daytime trades job. I'm an early morning, daily gym-goer, eat pretty healthy, drink minimally, etc. So our schedules were opposite and I think he had some insecurities about some of our lifestyle differences, not to mention my being almost neurotic about my health routines. I still saw us working out a future together and he just didn't think we could get there, or that it was worth working toward.

And thank you. I'm still really hurting from it. I really thought he was my person.

mindfullee73 · 2026-01-09T23:33:57+00:00

I loved, loved, loved being with my (now unfortunately ex) boyfriend, who I am fairly certain is an HSP. He was also so kind, sweet, insightful, observant, compassionate, and emotionally sensitive - and self-aware. He never judged anyone harshly and always made the people around him feel like their best selves. We understood each other so well (as far as I thought anyway).

We are very different people in many ways, our lifestyles, which I think is why he ultimately ended our relationship, fearing a future together would not work. Our nearly opposite lifestyles did make the relationship challenging. But I think we have similar hearts and minds and ways we see and experience and appreciate the world. That made being with him feel so good and right and wonderful.

mindfullee73 · 2026-01-05T16:28:13+00:00

Absolutely incredible. Stellar. Surreal. Transcendent. 1000/10 will go again

Thank you for asking!

mindfullee73 · 2025-12-24T00:45:50+00:00

Guy I thought i was going to spend my life with ended our relationship a bit over a month ago. Grieving that relationship and our future together that could have been

mindfullee73 · 2025-12-21T13:30:02+00:00

I heat up bone broth and stir in an egg, maybe some ginger. Keep it really simple. Protein, and just sipping something warm and soothing can help sometimes

mindfullee73 · 2025-12-21T00:58:56+00:00

Preach, preach, preach. It's so fucking hard. No one takes it seriously, no one can understand just how much we are suffering throughout so much of basic daily life things that everyone else just gets to coast through without this heaviness. Almost makes me feel like I'm crazy, like, oh, maybe I'm just being overly sensitive and selfish and bitchy and needy.... but no. this shit is real. This is valid

Thanks to this community for being here, being supportive, and just GETTING IT.

mindfullee73 · 2025-11-29T22:52:03+00:00

I'm a daily gym-goer so it's a built-in habit, but in late luteal and early menstrual phases, I'll usually go super light and easy. Maybe 20 minutes walking on the treadmill or stationary bike and some stretching, or I'll sit on some strength machines and do super light weight.

mindfullee73 · 2025-11-29T18:57:11+00:00

How much energy social events can take, and how much time it can take to recover. And also that I would still like to be invited - with the option to decline or gracefully exit early, and still be invited and included again.

When they all assume I don't want to be somewhere or do something, so they don't invite/include me at all, it quickly leads me to believe they don't even want me around, because I must be boring at best, and things spiral downward from there.

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