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Today, April 27th, is PMD remembrance day. Where we recall those we’ve lost to PMDD and PME.

#pmdrememberenceday #pmdd #premenstrual dysphoric disorder #living with pmdd #pme #premenstrual exacerbation #mental health #actually pmdd #mental health awareness #pmdd awareness #pmddsupport #pmdawarenessmonth2024

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Meow Are You? Deathly Threat

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Kinda niche, but I've spent the last five days feeling like I'm losing my mind so here are some PMDD memes. However bad you think it is based on these memes, it's worse.

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Shalene Gupta (journalist and author of Uncovering the Cycle) wrote a Time Magazine article today about premenstrual disorders!

#shalene gupta #pmdd #pmd awareness month 2024 #premenstrual dysphoric disorder #living with pmdd #pme #premenstrual exacerbation #mental health #actually pmdd #mental health awareness #pmdd awareness #pmddsupport

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#pmdd #premenstrual dysphoric disorder #living with pmdd #pme #premenstrual exacerbation #mental health #actually pmdd #mental health awareness #pmdd awareness #pmddsupport #pmd awareness month 2024

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Today is Trans Day of Visibility

Trans folk who have Premenstrual Disorders

Trans folk who have PMDD

Trans folk who have PME

Trans folk who feel attacked by their own bodies

You are completely valid. I love you

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Welcome to PMD awareness month!

#pmd awareness month 2024 #pmdd #premenstrual dysphoric disorder #living with pmdd #pme #premenstrual exacerbation #mental health #actually pmdd #mental health awareness #pmdd awareness #pmddsupport

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A candid interview with Shalene Gupta, author of the groundbreaking new book 'The Cycle: Confronting the Pain of Periods & PMDD.'

From a historical overview of feminist debates, to on-the-ground interviews and a searing critique of menstrual stigma, The Cycle uncovers the hidden epidemic of PMDD. Essential reading!

A note from @living-with-pmd

I read this book as soon as it came out. It was a fascinating read covering the history and stigmas surrounding PMDD and PME and menstruation in general. Very well-researched and written, interweaving journalistic analysis with personal accounts. A must-read for those wanting to learn more about PMDD and PME.

#the cycle #pmdd #premenstrual dysphoric disorder #pme #premenstrual exacerbation #living with pmdd #actually pmdd #pmd awareness month 2024

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[ID: the meme of a young Japanese girl holding up a frog in both hands with the caption "The evil is defeated" with an additional caption on top reading "When you have PMDD and your period finally starts." End ID]

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“ Ever since I got my period at age 12, my pre-menstrual symptoms have been intense.

It was like clockwork: for about a week and a half every month, I couldn’t get out of bed. I couldn’t focus on the simplest tasks. Even the most minor inconveniences or disagreements could send me spiraling: my suddenly overwhelming anxiety made mountains out of molehills.

And then, within the first couple days of my period, the cloud lifted. I could breathe again.

At first, I thought this was normal. All the descriptions of PMS I could find described symptoms like the ones I was experiencing. Fatigue? Check. Irritability? Check. Mood swings? Double check. How could I know I was any different?

Any part of me that knew something wasn’t right was immediately crushed by everyone I knew, from my mom to my doctor. “Pain,” they’d say, “is part of being a woman.” (Even though not only women who get periods).

I’d heard of the term “PMDD,” but I barely understood what it really meant. Honestly, I just kind of assumed I was crazy. It wasn’t until years later that my therapist fully explained the disorder to me.

Everything fell into place. I could finally explain myself.I wasn’t “crazy.” I had a mood disorder. Other people had to have been struggling with this, right? There was no way I was the only one. But if that was true, then why didn’t I – or anyone else I knew, for that matter – know about it? Why had I wasted years of my life pushing people away, feeling miserable, and not even understanding why?

I’m going to make sure that nobody else has to go through what I did.“

Read the rest of Sara’s piece here!

#pmdd #premenstrual dysphoric disorder #pme #premenstrual exacerbation #living with pmdd

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PMDD is so dumb

like we aren’t sad, brain, we just dropped some hormones come onnn

just pick them up off the floor and wipe the dirt off of them or something

so dramatic smh

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Yes

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i love the PMDD subreddit

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i hate that this is on “bad two sentence horror” because its actually good