Up to 8% of women experience premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD). That’s about the same as clinical anxiety — but PMDD sufferers often go years without getting the correct diagnosis. What is it, and why does it often go misdiagnosed?
Physical symptoms such as breast tenderness or swelling, joint or muscle pain, or bloating
But Dr. Snyder says usually the women she sees are plagued most by irritability and a low frustration tolerance for the several days before their period. “They’re easily angered, quick to yell at others, and very short-fused,” she explains. While a woman may be calm and in control of her emotions and responses for three weeks, for that fourth week, she’s tearful, anxious, quickly hostile, and generally feels like “a mess,” Dr. Snyder describes.
Then, because the symptoms run the gamut and don’t look the same from person to person, it’s also hard to diagnose.
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