Dealing with PMDD with Elizabeth Ferreira

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Being Well

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.8 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Premenstrual dysphoric disorder, or PMDD, is a severe form of premenstrual syndrome that includes intense feelings of anxiety, depression, and shame. It affects 5-10% of women, and most don't even know they have it. On today's episode, Forrest is joined by his partner Elizabeth Ferreira to explore what PMDD is, how to self-diagnose, effective practices for managing PMDD, and how to create a happy, healthy, fulfilling partnership alongside it.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Being Well, I'm Forest Hanson.
0:10.9	If you're new to the podcast, this is where we explore the practical science of last
0:15.0	and well-being.
0:16.2	And if you've listened before, welcome back.
0:19.2	This is normally where I would say that I'm joined by Dr. Rick Hanson, but instead we
0:23.6	have a very special episode today and I'm joined instead by my lovely partner Elizabeth
0:29.8	Ferra.
0:30.8	So Elizabeth, how are you doing today?
0:32.6	I'm really excited to do this episode with you.
0:35.8	Yeah, we've been really looking forward to this.
0:37.6	Yeah, no, I'm very excited.
0:39.1	I feel a bit like, ooh, I'm in the podcast.
0:41.8	You made it to the main roster.
0:44.7	Yeah, no, totally.
0:46.5	We've done a couple of these for Patreon, but this is your first time doing it for the
0:51.0	kind of main edition of the podcast.
0:53.1	I'm really looking forward to talking with you about this because today we are going to
0:56.2	be talking about pre-menstrual dysphoric disorder, otherwise known as PMDD.
1:01.8	So PMDD has a bunch of symptoms that include anxiety, severe bouts of depression and even
1:08.0	suicidal ideation.
1:09.9	It's essentially a very, very severe form of PMS and it afflicts about one in 20 women,
1:18.1	though it's really, really challenging to find exact numbers on this sort of stuff.
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