‘I thought I was losing my mind’: The hormonal condition that’s destroying women’s mental health
Every month, there are a handful of days when I feel so desperately sad I can barely leave my house. There have been panic attacks, feelings of hopelessness and suicidal thoughts. It’s something that only started in the last few years, and as such, there has been no shortage of things to attribute it to. Work. Family. Money. Relationships. Health. Contraception. Landlords. Essentially, every sort of life issue that may come up for any one of us has been, at some point, responsible for my monthly bouts of low mental health.
It wasn’t until last year, when I found myself researching another article on women’s health, that I came across . Premenstrual dysphoric disorder is a severe form of (PMS), which primarily affects your mental health. Affecting between two and eight women out of 100, this hormone-based mood disorder can cause a similar to PMS but far, far worse. They range
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