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The PMDD Phenomenon : Breakthrough Treatments for Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) and Extreme Premenstrual Syndrome

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I have been counseling women and their spouses/partners for over 5 years about all aspects of PMS and PMDD, more especially how to effectively treat PMS and PMDD using specific nutrition and other life-style changes. I have been symptom free of my own severe PMDD for over 4 years now following these methods. I found this book to be an honest, well researched and insightful tool in helping women (and their spouses/partners) to understand this disorder from the inside out. I highly recommend it!

Finally someone who understands! Having being diagnosed as suffering PMDD only recently this book was an absolute God send. Now I finally understand what it is that's gripping me each month and I am not - as I feared losing my mind. For any woman who suffers PMS or worse please do yourself a favour and get this book, make your family read it, your friends, your boss... it's great to know we are not alone!

This book is wonderful! It is easy to read, easy to understand, and for once I feel like I really understand what works, what doesn't work, and why. I highly recommend this book for every woman who has PMS, PMDD, or is even just a little cranky once a month. This puts it all into perspective, and offers all kinds of solutions. Top-notch! Plus, I trust the information because it comes from a woman doctor who is both a psychiatrist AND an OB/GYN.

This book is wonderful! It is easy to read, easy to understand, and for once I feel like I really understand what works, what doesn't work, and why. I highly recommend this book for every woman who has PMS, PMDD, or is even just a little cranky once a month. This puts it all into perspective, and offers all kinds of solutions. Top-notch! Plus, I trust the information because it comes from a woman doctor who is both a psychiatrist AND an OB/GYN.

It is refreshing to read a bood that actually tackles women's health problems which really are not taken seriously. Too many women suffer and at this time the medical establishment should take a more serious and alternate view on how to research and help women suffering with PMDD. This book has been an immense help and many kudos to Ms. Dell for tackling this subject.

I started this book yesterday evening and couldn't put it down. I have been suffering from PMDD since adolescence, although I didn't know it. I really appreciated the sections in the book that said that PMDD is a real, measurable condition - not a moral failing, or a lack of mental or physical fortitude. It is so nice to have a source of thorough information PLUS encouragement and understanding. It is helping my husband and I understand what I go through every month and why. This information is going to change my life, I can already tell.

The book is very good. I got it for my 24 year old daughter so she would be more knowledgeable at a younger age than I was. I thank God for all of the new research and medicines which are wonderful for women's health.

This book is the only book that clearly explains what goes on in the bodies and minds of some who get PMS and does NOT say that changing your diet will fix it! It actually says what I have always felt to be true-- that I am eating chocolate for a reason-- my serotonin levels are low and that the craving is my body's way of trying to get what it needs.

I am going to go on antidepressants for the three or four days of the month that I experience symptoms rather than doing what I am actually doing today-- taking a day off of work because I am having difficulty functioning. I will follow some of the other recommendations in the book--such as taking calcium and magnesium and exercising and hopefully see results.

I will update this review in a few months to talk about my progress.