Cathy, Tigger, I love you! Thank you so much for your heart warming sharings!

Now a very provocative thought: have girls and women been put under a spell for thousands of years, that they are to suffer under their moon time (or curse as the Americans put it, or used to), that they get all wrong in their heads and lose control of their civilised selves when they bleed and go completely wonky when they have their menopause?

I know that the majority of women do have pain and suffer during their moon days and under PMS, equally so during their menopause. It is real and I don't want to belittle it in any way. But if one single woman doesn't suffer (and I'm sure there are more!), that surely means it's not a law of nature and could be to some extent cultural. What's the contrary of placebo? Or to put even more clearly: voodoo?

Cathy, do you think it's because we went to girls' schools that we feel this way? Do we start competing when boys and men are around?

I love the cultures where the women hang around together, work together, share the housework and children and sorrows and joys together. They don't need therapists.