When a doctor dismisses cyclical mood symptoms as stress, anxiety, or “just hormones” they miss a diagnosis that could save a life. When a person spends years being told they’re too sensitive, dramatic, difficult - they internalise it. And in their darkest moments, they have no framework to understand why they no longer want to be here, or that it will pass when their luteal phase does. Right now, the medical system is failing people with PMDD. Until that changes, the most powerful tool we have