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Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD): It’s Not “Just In Your Head”
PMDD is similar to PMS, but much more severe and often debilitating. It involves mood, cognitive, and physical symptoms caused by the normal variations in estrogen and progesterone levels during the later half of the menstrual cycle leading up to the next period. It can be difficult to get a diagnosis by a health professional, which may be partly due to confusion about whether it is a psychiatric or a hormonal disorder, and likely also because doctors are taught that patients
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