If you have a period and the week before it starts you suddenly become extremely depressed, angry, combative, and/or irritable and struggle with serious suicidality, fatigue, intense mood swings, and become increasingly rejection sensitive β AND it all seems to stop a day or two into your bleeding, PLEASE look into Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD).
It is not "normal" to experience those symptoms during your period every month. The lead up to your period should not make you want to destroy all of your relationships and then kill yourself.
If you're uncomfortable going to a healthcare provider about these symptoms for any reason, I suggest tracking your symptoms for a few months. I take note of when my mood dips, when my cramps start, when my bleeding starts, when the irritability fades, when my bleeding ends, and how bad my pain is throughout the week. Do this tracking in a physical notebook - NOT on your phone and ESPECIALLY NOT in a period tracking app. Then start making some changes to your diet and continue to track those things to see if there are any differences. This is a long process, but I promise it's at least a little worthwhile.
I've found that increasing my intake of carbs and protein leading up to my period helps a lot. I primarily focus on eating rice and red meat because I like the combo and am also anemic so I need the iron, but any high carb/high protein source should help regardless of your other dietary restrictions or needs.
For myself, the dietary changes don't cure my symptoms, but they do ease them. My best working theory is your period is putting your body under intense physical stress that then impacts your mood and mental wellbeing, and the extra carbs and protein help give your body additional energy to manage some of that physical stress. This doesn't necessarily help on the hormonal end of things, but the reduced physical stress does help reduce some of the emotional distress.
Obviously I'm not a doctor and this is not necessarily solid medical advice, but it is what I've found helps me manage some of my own symptoms with this fuckass under studied disorder.
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