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Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) Split My Sense of Self in Two

May is Mental Health Awareness Month and National Women’s Health Month.As told to Erica RimlingerMy first period divided my life into before and after. Before I started menstruating, I was a regular 14-year-old girl: skateboarding, swimming and hanging out with my friends. Then, my period came, and within a year, it felt like my personality split in half. For two weeks out of every month, I experienced all the normal teenage ups and downs. The other two weeks, I cried hysterically in my room, physically crushed under the weight of my uncontrollable sadness and rage. I didn’t feel human and cou...