If PMDD is affecting your ability to work, through days off, reduced concentration, difficulty managing your usual responsibilities during the luteal phase, or conversations with your manager that you are not sure how to handle, … Read more

You know what PMDD feels like from the inside. You know the way the luteal phase arrives and changes everything, the emotional register, the relationship to threat, the exhaustion of managing responses that feel both … Read more

If you have found yourself researching PMDD, there is usually a reason. Perhaps you came across the term and felt an uncomfortable recognition, a sense that the description fits something you have been experiencing without … Read more

Getting a PMDD diagnosis in the UK is not always straightforward. The condition is real, well-documented, and recognised by the NHS, but it remains significantly underdiagnosed, partly because the symptoms arrive and depart on a … Read more

If you have recently been diagnosed with PMDD, or if you are in the process of getting a diagnosis, one of the most practical questions you face is what treatment is actually available to you. … Read more

One of the most disorienting things about PMDD is the sense that symptoms arrive without warning and disappear without explanation. But they do not, they follow the menstrual cycle with a consistency that, once understood, … Read more

One of the most frightening features of PMDD, and one of the least discussed, is what it can do to how a relationship feels during the luteal phase. Not just the irritability and the emotional … Read more

If you have experienced PMDD rage, the kind that arrives in the luteal phase, that feels disproportionate and unstoppable and entirely real while it is happening, and that leaves behind it a particular kind of … Read more

There is a version of you who wants closeness. Who reaches for your partner, who feels at ease in your body, who finds intimacy straightforward. And there is another version, the one who arrives in … Read more