Is depression a normal part of PMS?

Question: Every month . especially around the time my period about to start (3 days prior) , I am feeling really down, uncontrollable crying, nasty temper, I feel like I am on a rollercoaster?
Is this a sign of depression?
OR
Is this a nomal part of PMS?

Answers:
It's not really a normal part of PMS more like a symptom of PND (Pre-menstural Depression). There are various strategies for coping with it many of which are diet or vitamin/mineral based. The link below will be able to tell you much, much more.

Good Luck.

Other Answers:
That's PMS
Don't you just love it??
I never cry.But I can always tell when I'm getting ready to start because I cry watching Harry Potter.lol
I get so ill and mad I hate myself. It's normal.
☺

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Pretty normal. If you start wanting to commit, or have thoughts of suicide, you should see a doctor though. very much so..luckily I just got over my pms depression yesterday..I cried at the end of Canadian Idol when a girl I wanted to stay got booted..how silly is that? lol ..You're ok hun ((hugs))

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I feel like that too, and I asked my mom about it and she said it was, so I guess it is.
I hate it tho becuase i always tend to take it out on my boyfriend.
Thank goodness, he hasnt broken up with me for it yet!

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Yes along with mood swings sounds like it's all the pms symptoms. If it last throughout the month, then it's depression

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I don't think is a normal part of PMS, some findings suggests that mood disorders may involve abnormalities in brain biochemistry. It has been found that levels of neurotransmitters, nor epinephrine and serotonin, are lower in the brains of depressed persons than in those of non-depressed persons

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