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Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) is a severe hormone-related condition that can affect your mood, emotions, relationships, and everyday life. In this section you’ll find a collection of articles exploring PMDD, its symptoms, causes, diagnosis, treatment options, and practical advice to help you better understand and manage the condition. If you’re looking for support with the emotional and psychological impact of living with PMDD, use the links below to learn more about PMDD counselling or book a free consultation.
For many people, the question of whether PMDD and PCOS are connected is not an abstract clinical one. It is the question they find themselves asking after receiving diagnoses for both conditions, or after noticing that the hormonal disruption of … Read more
If you have heard the term PMDD and are trying to understand what it actually means — for yourself, or for someone you love — you are in the right place. Premenstrual dysphoric disorder is a condition that many people … Read more
If you experience PMDD rage, you already know the particular quality of shame that follows it. The moment when clarity returns — when your period starts and the luteal phase lifts — and you are left looking back at what … Read more
If you had PMDD before pregnancy and you are now approaching your first postpartum period with a sense of dread, that feeling is completely understandable. Many people with PMDD find that pregnancy offers a kind of relief — the absence … Read more
If you have lived with PMDD for years and something has started to feel different — symptoms shifting in timing or intensity, new experiences arriving alongside familiar ones, a sense that the pattern you thought you understood has changed — … Read more
If you have lived with PMDD for any length of time, you have probably asked yourself a version of this question: which one is the real me? The version of yourself during the follicular phase — present, regulated, capable of … Read more
When someone you love has PMDD, the experience of being on the outside of it carries its own particular difficulty. You might notice the pattern — the month dividing itself into two distinct versions of the person you know — … Read more
If your partner has PMDD, you already know there are two versions of the month. One in which everything feels steady — where the person you love is present, warm, recognisably themselves. And one in which something shifts, and you … Read more
If you have PMDD — or you are close to someone who does — you may recognise a particular and distressing experience: the relationship that felt solid and genuinely good last week now feels uncertain, wrong, or like a source … Read more
PMDD does not happen in isolation. It happens inside a life, and a significant part of most people’s lives is their close relationships. When PMDD is severe, its effects extend well beyond the person experiencing it — reaching into how … Read more