CBT recommended for PMS in the UK

[TiredSam]

While PMS affects a large proportion of women, the exact mechanism behind the condition remains unclear.

Making it a perfect target for CBT.

I agree with @Jenny TipsforME, this might just wake up at least 50% of the population to the ridiculous and appalling way CBT is being promoted as a treatment for everything unexplained, which can only be good for pwme.

 

[Solstice]

Having a nasty therapist to visit might also help with the bit about wanting to thump someone

Only on reading it for the third time I noticed it was thump instead of, well, something else .

 

[mermaid]

I just noticed that there are no comments permitted after that article. More than their life is worth - you can imagine the amount that would be banned!

 

[Invisible Woman]

Making it a perfect target for CBT.

I agree with @Jenny TipsforME, this might just wake up at least 50% of the population to the ridiculous and appalling way CBT is being promoted as a treatment for everything unexplained, which can only be good for pwme.

Snag is the swine have gotten away with pathologicalizing (?) female behaviour for hundreds of years.

 

[Jenny TipsforME]

Snag is the swine have gotten away with pathologicalizing (?) female behaviour for hundreds of years.

True but if ME politics was seen as a general women's issue we could get thousands of feminists (female and male) signing our petitions and perhaps being actual people at #millionsmissing events...

 

[purrsian]

I fought tooth and nail to get to our local pain clinic...and after waiting several months- guess what- CBT! I was treated as if I was completely stupid, as ( lying down in so much pain I was in tears), I was shown a diagram that showed if I was 'Happy' then I would feel less pain than if I felt ' Stressed'! GENIUS!!

That's so frustrating. We can't figure out how to fix you, so clearly it must be because you aren't happy enough!

 

[CFS_for_19_years]

But as O’Brien points out, only the removal of the womb and ovaries will resolve the issue permanently. “It is actually the only cure but it is very drastic,” he said.

That would mean that a woman would be forced into menopause which has its own set of problems such as hot flashes, increased fatigue, etc. How might they plan on fixing that? More CBT?

 

[trishrhymes]

That would mean that a woman would be forced into menopause which has its own set of problems such as hot flashes, increased fatigue, etc. How might they plan on fixing that? More CBT?

I think women who have early hysterectomies are usually offered HRT. I tried HRT for a month during menopause and felt so ill on it I gave up - for me it was worse than PMS or menopause symptoms, but lots of women seem to be OK on it. Probably didn't help that I had ME as well.

 

[Large Donner]

Shaughn O’Brien, professor of obstetrics and gynaecology - a man who has never had a single PMS day in his life. What a complete ass. All the CBT in the world wouldn't have helped my cramps and fatigue the day before my period started. CBT seems to be the cure-all for everything in the UK.

He needs a football in the bollocks. For 24 hours 5 days a month.