Have you ever had just one of "Those "days...

[Queen Asuka]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Transtic Nerve [/i]
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Twas a joke... no need to get all serious... guys can't have TRUE PMS, although I'm convinced there is some type or equivalent for men... and gay guys get it much more than straight men lol.... I know from experience... [/B][/QUOTE]

[color=crimson][size=1]I believe that guys have to get something like PMS because my DAD gets so EVIL around the same time each month and it's really annoying. And also another thing that's annoying is whenever a girl is unhappy or mad and people will always make the smart comment that's it's PMS. Well be a little more sensitive and grow up because girls do not have permanent PMS...although I swear some guys do...[/color][/size]

[Fall]

I always have one of.... those.... days... all the time. They seem to happen all the time in the morning before I get on the bus to school... Hmmm....

[Dan L]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Transtic Nerve [/i]
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Twas a joke... no need to get all serious... guys can't have TRUE PMS, although I'm convinced there is some type or equivalent for men... and gay guys get it much more than straight men lol.... I know from experience... [/B][/QUOTE]

apparantly there is.... seriously... I think it's called 'male stress disorder' or something very similar... I read it in a magazine.... a SCIENCE magazine.... I'll post the details tomorrow ;)

oh yes, I have 'one of those days' all the time.... usually when I'm in work, or uni ;)

EDIT: forget tomorrow, I found the article on the website... I was close: 'Irritable male syndrome'.... OK.... one word in three isn't bad :rolleyes:

I'll just copy the article into a quote.

[QUOTE]Hormone swings affect men too, suggests research


19:00 27 February 02

Exclusive from New Scientist Print Edition

The newly recognised condition of irritable male syndrome plays havoc with male animals, temporarily turning confident, chest-beating Tarzans into withdrawn, grumpy wimps. And there's some evidence that irritable male syndrome, which is triggered by a sudden drop in testosterone, affects men as well as animals, says Gerald Lincoln of the Medical Research Council's Human Reproductive Sciences Unit in Edinburgh, Scotland.


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The symptoms may resemble those of the so-called male menopause, but Lincoln believes the condition can affect men of any age when stress causes testosterone levels to plummet. If he's right, it's not just women who have their hormonal ups and downs.

Lincoln first pinpointed the syndrome in Soay sheep. In the autumn, the rams' testosterone levels soar and they rut. In the winter, testosterone levels plummet and they lose interest in sex. High testosterone is supposed to mean more aggression. But the rams were more likely to injure themselves when testosterone was low.

So Lincoln monitored the activity of eight rams, such as how often they struck out with their horns. As testosterone levels fell, the rams changed from competent males who addressed each other in a ritualistic fashion, to nervous, withdrawn animals that struck out irrationally, he says.


Reindeer and elephants


Red deer, reindeer, mouflon and Indian elephants also show clear signs of irritable male syndrome when testosterone levels fall off at the end of their breeding seasons, says Lincoln. "The mahouts sometimes starve the elephants after the musth, or tie them up to keep them under control."

But what does this mean for people? Here the evidence is shaky, Lincoln admits. But it's clear that testosterone has a major impact on human behaviour.

The brain is loaded with receptors for testosterone and its conversion products. What's more, Richard Anderson, also at Edinburgh, has found that when men who cannot produce testosterone come off hormone replacement therapy, they become irritable and depressed. Their mood improves when they resume treatment.

Lincoln thinks that stresses such as bereavement, divorce or life-threatening illnesses could send testosterone levels plummeting. There are few human studies on stress and testosterone, he says, but numerous studies on animals, including primates, show that testosterone levels fall when stress sends corticosteroid levels skywards.


Men behaving sadly


"It's right on the money," says reproductive endocrinologist David Abbott of the Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center in Madison. "Testosterone effects have been missed. When a bloke gets grumpy and irritable, [researchers] try and explain it only in terms of cortisol levels and depression. They ignore the fact that testosterone levels are probably falling too."

But David Handelsman, an expert on male hormones at the University of Sydney, is more cautious. He says the changes in testosterone levels in normal adult men are far smaller than the dramatic swings seen in Soay rams, with one notable exception: levels fall by at least 90 per cent in men who undergo castration for advanced prostate cancer.

"The wives notice it first," says Keen-Hun Tai of the Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute in Melbourne. "The men become more withdrawn, but more emotional. They laugh and cry more easily."

Clearly, the jury's still out when it comes to people. But if irritable male syndrome does affect men, diagnosing it won't be easy. It's far from clear what normal testosterone levels are, while extra doses of the hormone may increase the risk of heart disease.

But the syndrome could still be worth investigating. "Instead of putting stressed men on Prozac, a little testosterone may do the job," says Abbott.

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[Spikey]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Nerdsy [/i]
[B][COLOR=deeppink]What you all would call "one of those days" would be a regular day for me. "One of those days" for me is a day when I'm actually not in a bad mood and the day has been good for me.[/COLOR] [/B][/QUOTE]

....man you must be lucky "one of those days" for me are real bad...but man how can you like "just one of those days". lol

[Sephiroth]

I have "those" days quite often, I had one yesterday in fact, I recently bought phantasy star online version 2 on friday, and everytime I tried to play on it yesterday somethinh happened, like having to go out or do something, grrr....

[Fall]

Well currently I'm in the middle of my 4th "those days" day in a row. Nothing ever goes right when you want it too.... though when you don't want it too, it does.... Grrrr... :flaming:

[DeathKnight]

[color=crimson]I have those days for no reason. I go into these pyschotic fits of anger, I take a butcher knife and stab things at random, nothing organic...

And I slit my arms, not my wrists, and let them bleed while crying uncontrolably... And they stop bleeding. One of these times they might not.

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[D. Dark]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Squashed Snail [/i]
[B]Well currently I'm in the middle of my 4th "those days" day in a row. Nothing ever goes right when you want it too.... though when you don't want it too, it does.... Grrrr... :flaming: [/B][/QUOTE]

Ah yes...

That is the beggining of one of "Those" weeks, where nothing goes right.

Started for me by breaking my glasses, the zip on my suitcase, and acting like a drunken guy, and ending with beng ill. Sheesh, and ina bloody camping trip!

[Sui Generis]

I have two of "Those" days in a row...its been really crappy this week lol....but yeah I just have those once in a while and everytime I do no matter where I am you will here me singing one song....."Its jsut one of those days...when you don't wanna wake up, everything is ****ed everybody sucks, and you really don't know why but you wanna justify ripping someone's head off..."