If you live with PMDD, you have heard some version of the question: “Have you tried yoga?” And if your immediate response is somewhere between exhaustion and rage that makes perfect sense. Too often, phrases like this are offered as shorthand solutions to deeply disruptive experiences — the kind that affect mood, energy, pain levels, […]
Not “That Kind” of Yoga: PMDD, Practice, and Being Met Where You Are Read More »
Hi there! I’m Kim and I am the Community Outreach Manager for The PMDD Project – the first UK charity to focus on PMDD. As well as supporting this incredible charity, a lot of my time is spent managing my various health conditions. As anybody with any chronic illness and/or neurodiversity will testify… being “different
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Guest Blog Contributor – Tracey Fayle When the luteal phase has started And the rational brain has departed When a cloud of smoke fills my head And I’m struggling to leave my bed All the words reach a deafening roar The voice of doom you can’t stand no more Let the battle commence Take cover
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Guest Blog Contributor – Phoebe Vickers It is 2022 in a dark uni room in Southampton, and I am googling the symptoms of bipolar disorder surrounded by Jaffacakes and ASOS parcels I don’t remember ordering. I hate my life. I hate my friends. I hate this university, and I am not smart enough anyway. I should lose weight. I
My Luteal Phase is Trying to Kill Me – Lived Experience Read More »
Guest blog contributor – Louise Scriven beginning the process of discovering, diagnosing, and accepting my monthly reality Louise Scriven is a guest blog contributor. About me… Hello to everyone reading this! This is my first official time writing in the form of a blog, so bear with me! I’d like to start this off by introducing
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Unmasking PMDD : Finding hope through grief Hi there! I’m Kim and I am the Community Outreach Manager for The PMDD Project – the first UK charity to focus on PMDD. As well as supporting this incredible charity, a lot of my time is spent managing my various health conditions. As anybody with any chronic
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Unmasking : An Introduction Hi there! I’m Kim and I am the Community Outreach Manager for The PMDD Project – the first UK charity to focus on PMDD. As well as supporting this incredible charity, a lot of my time is spent managing my various health conditions. As anybody with any chronic illness and/or neurodiversity
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Lived experience of PMDD from PMDD warriors. A poem by Tracy Fayle. You can read more about our Guest contributor Tracey below. Trigger warning: references to suicidal ideation. PMDD – By Tracy Fayle When the voices in your head, want you dead, feeling worthless, nothing but a mess, hopeless. Impulsive, looking for a diagnosis, everywhere
Lived experiences of PMDD with our guest blogger, Katie. You can read more about Katie below. For years, I was told I was just “one of those women”, you know, the emotional kind. One doctor even said, “some women get like this,” as if I’d accidentally subscribed to the deluxe version of PMS. Spoiler: I
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Pmdd awareness month Spring is FINALLY HERE! *Collective sigh of relief* More hours of daylight, daffodils and blossom everywhere, time to sow seeds in the garden, plan ahead… even the local miserable old dude in the park cracked a smile at my very goofy cockapoo the other day. Things are looking up, people! Spring is
The pmdd project springing into action this april Read More »
