The Trap of Self-Blame and Solo Coping – For years, I thought I just wasn’t trying hard enough. That if I ate “cleaner,” meditated more, healed my gut, or finally figured out my hormones, I’d stop losing myself every month. I analysed, ruminated, fretted about everything that was wrong with me. I desperately wanted to find the magic therapy or therapist to give me the magic key to unlocking everything and releasing me from PMDD

Pre-Menstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) is a mental health condition characterised by severe depression and/or anxiety that occurs in the 3-14 days before onset on menstruation and resolves within a day or two of the menstrual period commencing.

It is much more debilitating than the more widely-known Pre-Menstrual Syndrome (PMS), with symptoms often having a severe negative impact on the daily lives, mind, emotions, work and relationships of those who suffer it. It affects between 3 – 8% of women and AFAB individuals of reproductive age.

Pre-Menstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) is a mental health condition characterised by severe depression and/or anxiety that occurs in the 3-14 days before onset on menstruation and resolves within a day or two of the menstrual period commencing.

It is much more debilitating than the more widely-known Pre-Menstrual Syndrome (PMS), with symptoms often having a severe negative impact on the daily lives, mind, emotions, work and relationships of those who suffer it. It affects between 3 – 8% of women and AFAB individuals of reproductive age.