A Comprehensive Guide on How to Effectively Deal with PMDD

 Hey readers, 

If you feel like your hormones hijack your moods, motivation, and basic functioning abilities for up to two weeks every month before your period, you could be dealing with a condition called Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD). 

PMDD goes beyond typical PMS and causes much more extreme emotional and physical symptoms that can disrupt home life, work life, and overall well-being. 

The good news is that you don’t have to suffer through PMDD quietly or alone. Several effective treatment options and lifestyle adjustments can help you regain control of your monthly cycle. 

Read on to understand what causes PMDD, who’s at risk, and most importantly what real steps you can take to ease PMDD symptoms and stop feeling so powerless against monthly mood swings. 

 

What Causes PMDD?

Researchers believe that women with PMDD react more severely to normal fluctuations in hormones like estragon and progesterone throughout their menstrual cycles. 

Key PMDD hormonal triggers include:

* Estragon levels drop dramatically just before your period starts.

* Changes occur in brain chemicals like serotonin, a mood stabiliser

Doctors don’t fully understand why some women’s bodies react so intensely to normal hormonal shifts. 

But certain risk factors make some women more prone to PMDD including:  

* Family history of mood disorders.

* Personal history of a mood disorder like depression or anxiety.

* History of postpartum depression after giving birth.

 

5 Key Solutions & Coping Strategies.

If PMDD is wreaking havoc with your menstrual cycles, know that you have options. Start finding what works for you from these effective PMDD treatment strategies:

* Track to find triggers: Chart your cycles plus mood changes to identify PMDD timing and effective solutions. Tracking helps you feel empowered, not helpless.  

* Therapy provides perspective: Talk therapy helps identify unhealthy thought patterns making PMDD feel worse. A professional’s outside perspective equips you with new coping skills.

 * Lifestyle changes relieve stress: Reducing stress through rest, moderate exercise, healthy eating, and no alcohol/drugs can help stabilise mood swings.  

* Birth control regulates hormones: Hormonal IUDs or birth control pills provide the hormones your body lacks to balance moods.

* SSRIs alleviate serotonin drops: Antidepressants like Sertraline used 2 weeks before your period counter the serotonin deficiency behind low moods.

You Don’t Have to Hide Your Struggles.

Half of all menstruating individuals deal with some form of PMS. Yet only around 5 per cent suffer from true, diagnosed PMDD.

 Recognising and owning the reality of PMDD brings the freedom to choose healthier thoughts, behaviours, and coping mechanisms. 

When you understand the hormonal shifts behind PMDD rather than believing the issue is your character, it’s easier to find compassion for yourself and solutions.  

The key is uncovering what combination of lifestyle changes, medications, therapy, tracking, openness, and education helps you thrive through every phase of your cycle, not just the “good weeks”.

 Take back your life from PMDD so you can function fully, freely, and consistently regardless of your menstrual phase.

 You deserve to live unleashed from disabling monthly mood disruptions. It’s possible!

Cheers for reading X