Monthly anguish: Premenstrual dysphoric disorder comes out of the shadows

A pre-menstrual disorder, PMDD causes extreme distress but new recognition should help us to identify and treat it early, writes Dr Brendan Kelly.

Fri, 23 Aug, 2019 - 11:00

Dr Brendan Kelly

A pre-menstrual disorder, PMDD causes extreme distress but new recognition should help us to identify and treat it early, writes Dr Brendan Kelly.

IN May 2019, the World Health Organisation added premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), a severe, disabling form of premenstrual syndrome, to the 11th revision of its International Classification of Diseases.

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