Women's Health
PMDD in women
(Premenstrual Dysphoric disorder)
I decided to choose this topic to raise awareness among everyone but especially women. PMDD is a severe form of premenstrual syndrome that appears 1 to 2 weeks before your period. PMDD can come with emotional and physical symptoms. Some of the emotional symptoms are anger, irritability, crying, hopelessness, suicidal thoughts, sadness, confusion, and feeling completely out of control. Physical symptoms can be things like swelling, joint and muscle pain, severe fatigue, nausea, and even insomnia. With all these symptoms that a woman has to go through every month, it can impact the quality of our life and our daily functioning. That is why it is so important for women to know this.
Yoko Ono and Diana Ocholla are the ones who inspired me. Yoko Ono with her artistic performance “cut piece”. She appears vulnerable while people cut pieces of her own clothes, and this reflects when women go through pms or pmdd and feel so vulnerable.
Also Diana Ocholla who defends the right of women to feel safe wherever we go. This is how women should feel, safe and understood by their menstrual cycle, that we don't have the power to simply not choose to have it and that we're not just acting “weird.”
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