Microdosing, seen clearly.

You showed up for every single one of these 28 days, and that kind of steady attention to yourself is worth pausing on before anything else. This cycle opened gently, with July 2 to July 4 as your steadiest stretch, sitting around a 7. On July 11 you wrote that you felt “clear and like myself again,” and it’s good that day is on record, a real point of brightness in the month.

Then the last few days, July 26 to July 28, were genuinely hard, dipping to around a 3. On the 26th you put words to it plainly: “felt stretched thin and guilty for it, snapped at my partner over nothing.” That guilt you were carrying wasn’t a fair read of what was happening. In the days before your period, your mood ran about 2.9 points lower, your energy and sleep both dropped, and your sense of connection pulled inward by more than 3 points while anxiety climbed. That whole cluster landing together, right before your period, is a real pattern, not a personal failing and not something random about you. Irritability and feeling overwhelmed were strongly present too, which lines up with a stretch where your body and your patience were both running on less.

It’s worth noticing that your average mood this cycle was about 1.2 points higher than last cycle. The Mushroom protocol happened to be running through all 28 days alongside this, though that’s just a timing note, nothing more, and not something to lean on as a cause. What matters more is the shape of your month itself: real ease early on, real strain late, and you tracking all of it honestly instead of smoothing it over.

You met a hard stretch with less mood room, less sleep, less energy, and you still kept showing up to notice how you felt. That noticing is not nothing. Whatever next cycle brings, you’ll come to it with this month’s pattern already a little more visible, and that’s something worth carrying forward gently, not as a verdict but as a piece of self-knowledge that’s yours now.