Re last post, I strongly believe that PMDD impacts more than 3% of people who menstruate. The 8% figure makes a lot more sense to me.
I think about the implications of lack of awareness and access to care in lower socioeconomic / less wealthy environments constantly. Imagine how many women don’t have access to diagnosis + care who are forced to live a nightmare plagued by severe mood swings, depression, intense irritability, panic attacks, and fatigue — to name a few. These women have no choice but to believe that there is something inherently wrong with them because they don’t possess the ability to maintain relationships, show up to work, comprehensively function in their day to day lives for half of every single month. It’s a very real disorder with very real consequences when untreated.
It took me over 5 years to get a diagnosis and I’m an affluent, upper middle class white woman.
The lack of funding for PMDD research is yet another example of a systemic failure by a government that gets paid to protect its citizens. I see none of that happening. Shocker!
