I feel like I genuinely cannot get my boyfriend to understand this and how it affects me. I’ve tried to explain it to him, and sometimes feel like he understands, but any time I have a period of irrationality (and have told him I am aware of it), he doesn’t act understanding or comforting, he focuses on how I am being “irrational” and gets really defensive and honestly rude. I don’t know how to get him to understand after I have tried so many times.