Over 800,000 Women in the UK Have PMDD, Yet 90% Are Misdiagnosed—Here's What's Going Wrong

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Premenstrual dysphoric disorder, a debilitating condition which affects approximately 824,000 UK women and people assigned female at birth, was only formally recognised in the World Health Organisation’s International Classification of Diseases in 2019.

I’ll say that one more time. A condition which affects 824,000 people in the UK, and which is associated with depression, anxiety, social isolation, paranoia and a seven times higher risk of suicide, has only been officially recognised for seven years.