Does menstruation increase anxiety, stress, and depression?

Premenstrual boredom disorder is one of the types of mood disorders. 80 to 30 percent of women experience it mildly and 10 to 2 percent experience it severely. The cause of this disorder is not known, but one of the most common theories about it is the high ratio of estrogen to progesterone. The symptoms of the disorder appear mostly in the form of despair, restlessness, emotional instability, anger and physical complaints (headache, breast tenderness and edema). The present study is a comparison with anxiety, stress and depression during menstruation and purity. For this purpose, a sample of 200 unmarried girls of Ferdowsi University was selected and the subjects answered two questionnaires (1- Menstrual symptoms according to DSM-IV2 - the DASS test, which measures the level of anxiety, stress and depression) answered. With the information obtained, we reached the conclusion that among the 200 people in the sample of this research, 47.5% were in the age group of 19 years and 5 50% of them were non-native and 43% of them were middle children (they were not the first and last children). and 61 people (30.5%) during menstruation. The amount of stress, anxiety and depression in women who were experiencing menstruation was significantly higher than women who were in clean days.

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