PMDD
I'll never forget the time someone told me to "stick a tampon in it" — that I was being "crazy" because my "hormones must be through the roof." Read...
Sufferers of PDD experience profound feelings of sadness before their period. Read...
No medication seemed to really work, so I started to believe I was responsible for my own sickness. While I professed the notion in public that mental illness is akin to physical illness and therefore no more or less anyone’s “fault” for having to cope with it, when I was alone I hurled all the blame in my own direction.
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