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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.
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
If you are living with PMDD and looking for ways to make it more manageable, you have probably already encountered lists of lifestyle tips that feel either too generic or too optimistic. The truth about PMDD coping strategies is more … Read more
When you have PMDD, the question of what to do about it is rarely answered in one conversation. The condition has medical, psychological, and lifestyle dimensions, and effective management typically draws on more than one approach. This guide covers the … Read more
PMDD produces a cluster of symptoms that are specific, severe, and, crucially, cyclical. They appear in the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle, typically the two weeks before menstruation, and they lift within days of the period starting. Read more
If you have PMDD and you have started researching supplements, you will have encountered a significant gap between what is claimed online and what the research actually demonstrates. Read more
If you have PMDD, or if you love someone who does, you may have encountered the phrase ‘menstrual psychosis’ and wondered what it means, and whether it has anything to do with PMDD. Read more
Living with PMDD is, by itself, a significant psychological and relational challenge. Living with PCOS is too, the hormonal disruption, the unpredictability, the way it affects body, mood, and identity in ways that are difficult to explain to people who … Read more
The phrase ‘I cured my PMDD naturally’ appears in thousands of searches every year. Behind it is something that makes complete sense: a desire for agency, for evidence that the condition is not simply something that happens to you, for … Read more
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, you may have wondered whether … 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 entirely real and entirely out … Read more