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Ah America, the land of the melodramatic, 99.6% inaccurate self-diagnosis. ;)
First off: no harm no foul. I once thought my month long headaches and constant hiccuping were signs of possible brain tumors (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/007222.htm), so I feel ya'.
Having trouble concentrating, indecisiveness, and a lack of confidence are all common features of:
A) humans
B) women
C) young people still learning the way things work
D) all of the above
And as for option B- accept the stereotype for what is is: a safe generalization made in good fun by yet another woman plagued by bouts of overpowering mind traffic, hiccups of self-doubt, and the kind of indecisiveness that makes women more likely than men to get into totally avoidable car accidents at low speeds...
The odds favor pms over dysthymia 50 to 3.
Self treatment? Well since it's probably not a disorder at all (since, let's face it: most things are usually nothing to worry about), relaxing and getting a better grip on the reality of the issues you're currently dealing with are probably your best bets. Letting time pass will help, as will common sense and patience.
From where you're standing it might seem nice to have something on which to blame certain unwanted behaviors, but from the vantage point of the folks that actually suffer from this disorder, that's a pretty selfish and short-sighted thing to want. Some things don't have medical names, they just have subtle annoyances that last a short while and then, provided you don't dwell on them and blow them out of proportion, are gone.
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