Sage

Lately I've been seeing a lot of advertising for PMDD- Premenstrual dysphoric disorder. It's severe PMS to the point that it interferes with daily functions, and the American Psychiatric Association is considering inducting it as an official disorder, thus making it a diagnosis that can be treated with drugs and whatnot.

However, knowing that I, as well as many thousands of women, had close to the same symptoms (irratibility, anger, anxiety, depression, etc) while on hormonal birth control, I wonder if the researchers have done any correlative studies to see if PMDD has any relation to women being on hormonal birth control. Personally, I think there would be a correlation, but I don't have enough facts.

Ladies, what do you think? Is PMDD a valid, seperate disorder, or are we just seeing it's ascension to the forefront of "women's maladies" because so many women are on hormones that make them borderline psychotic?

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