The One About Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) with Jes Flemming
The Papaya Podcast
The Papaya Podcast
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Sarah shares her personal journey with PMDD (Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder) and discusses the stigma and misunderstanding surrounding the condition. Joined by PMDD practitioner Jess Fleming, they explore the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment options for PMDD, emphasizing the importance of education and self-advocacy. They highlight the emotional and physical toll of PMDD, the need for better understanding of women's health, and the significance of tracking symptoms to seek appropriate care. The discussion also touches on the complexities of managing PMDD and the hope for finding effective solutions.
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| 0:42.6 | Hi friends and welcome to the Papaya podcast. I'm your hostess, Tryin Hermostis, Sarah Nicole, and each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed in with some seeds of wisdom |
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| 0:56.1 | together. All right, everyone, welcome back. This is an episode that I've sort of been |
| 1:01.9 | promising, wanting to do for a really long time. As many of you know, I was diagnosed with |
| 1:08.0 | PMDD about two years ago. And I only ever sought diagnosis after having some |
| 1:13.6 | suspicions. And then my naturopath suspected it. Then my doctor confirmed it. Then a second doctor |
| 1:20.4 | confirmed it. And yet every day on the internet, I'm still faced with people who don't believe |
| 1:25.9 | it's real, that believe it's made up, |
| 1:28.3 | that believe it's just PMS being dramatic and all of those things that people love to minimize |
| 1:33.4 | when it comes to mental health and especially for women. It's so misunderstood. And I'm a person |
| 1:39.3 | that's been diagnosed with it. I am not an expert in it. And that's where it gets extra layered for me because |
| 1:45.0 | people often come for support and help and I can't always be that person because I'm still |
| 1:49.9 | learning and understanding it myself. And as I've been learning it and with the amount of stigma |
| 1:55.7 | around it and with the misunderstanding around it, I've shared less and less about PMDD because |
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