The One About Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) with Jes Flemming

The Papaya Podcast

Society & Culture, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 3 March 2025

⏱️ 56 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast. I'm your hostess, Try and Hermostas, Sarah Nicole,
0:10.2	and each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed in with some seeds of wisdom or something like that.
0:18.2	So get ready to get inspired, get candid, get real, because we are all in this digital
0:23.3	space together. All right, everyone, welcome back. This is an episode that I've sort of been
0:29.5	promising, wanting to do for a really long time. As many of you know, I was diagnosed with PMDD
0:36.0	about two years ago. And I only ever sought diagnosis after having some suspicions.
0:42.7	And then my naturopath suspected it.
0:45.4	Then my doctor confirmed it.
0:47.1	Then a second doctor confirmed it.
0:49.3	And yet every day on the internet, I'm still faced with people who don't believe it's real,
0:55.0	that believe it's made up, that believe it's just PMS being dramatic and all of those things that people
1:00.2	love to minimize when it comes to mental health and especially for women. It's so misunderstood.
1:05.8	And I'm a person that's been diagnosed with it. I am not an expert in it. And that's where
1:10.5	it gets extra
1:11.5	layered for me because people will often come for support and help. And I can't always be that
1:16.4	person because I'm still learning and understanding it myself. And as I've been learning it and
1:22.3	with the amount of stigma around it and with the misunderstanding around it, I've shared less and less
1:26.9	about PMDD because
1:28.2	it's been so hard to both work to heal and manage it and talk about it. So I'm bringing on an
1:36.0	expert today. I'm bringing on a PMDD practitioner, Jess Fleming is here. She is of the page,
1:41.2	her mood mentor, and she talks. And I've shared her post so many times around PMDD to try and help people understand what this is because it was something that I barely understood myself before walking down the path.
1:54.6	And I believe that through social media, other people sharing their experiences and pages like Jess's, help me understand what was
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