period stigma Archives - Empoword Journalism https://www.empowordjournalism.com/tag/period-stigma/ Led by women. Uniting and empowering journalists across the globe. Mon, 05 Jun 2023 00:11:01 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 ‘Being Diagnosed With PMDD Changed My Life’ https://www.empowordjournalism.com/all-articles/being-diagnosed-with-pmdd-changed-my-life/ https://www.empowordjournalism.com/all-articles/being-diagnosed-with-pmdd-changed-my-life/#respond Sat, 03 Jun 2023 18:50:14 +0000 https://www.empowordjournalism.com/?p=40383 Nothing can compare to the wave of relief that washed over me upon hearing those words - “You have PMDD”. I wasn’t being dramatic, I wasn’t just experiencing PMS, and I didn’t have severe mental health issues.

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]]> https://www.empowordjournalism.com/all-articles/being-diagnosed-with-pmdd-changed-my-life/feed/ 0 OPINION: Period stigma – We don’t know our bodies https://www.empowordjournalism.com/all-articles/opinion/opinion-period-stigma-we-dont-know-our-bodies/ https://www.empowordjournalism.com/all-articles/opinion/opinion-period-stigma-we-dont-know-our-bodies/#comments Thu, 20 Oct 2022 16:22:03 +0000 https://www.empowordjournalism.com/?p=32875 It wasn’t until I was 19 years old, whilst reading Maisie Hill’s novel Period Power, that I first heard that extremely painful periods should not be considered ‘normal’. I had spent so many years of my life believing that menstrual pain was an unavoidable part of womanhood and something I had to accept.

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