| | Definition: | |  PMS
Tears, anger, depression, irritability, anxiety - these are the characteristic emotional swings that can affect a woman with PMS. Therapist Stephanie Bender shares her successful program for treating psychological and physical symptoms of PMS. Her book shows how PMS damages self-esteem, family, personal relationships, and career; teaches a woman how to communicate about PMS and thus relieve the guilt, embarrassment, and other bad feelings that arise from PMS; explains how to record and chart PMS symptoms - the only way in which PMS can be diagnosed; presents the latest diet, vitamins, exercise, and hormone treatments for PMS; and reveals how men feel - and can help - when they are partners of women with PMS. Here, finally, is breakthrough research based on the experiences of more than 1,000 women with PMS - a book that deals with the real issues on premenstrual syndrome! more details ... |
| | Definition: | | Premenstrual syndrome is characterized by recurrent and signs and symptoms that develop during the 7 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation and subsides when menstruation occurs. These signs and symptoms can be variable and diverse, such as water retention, food craving, tiredness, excitability, sore/tender breasts, abdominal pain, mood swings, etc. |
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