Title says it all. 

The other options are 1) making music and 2) hurting myself. But they are nowhere near as strong as sex as an antidote to stress. Does anyone else experiences this? How do you deal with it? 

Further, how do you talk to your partner about it? It makes me feel horrible, I feel like a burden and I feel like poison for our sex life when it happens. And yet maybe I am lucky because I found a way to deal with the stress of an episode? I don't know how to feel about that.