Interview study, 2024
What emotional patterns are part of PMDD?
Women with PMDD experience deep emotional patterns centered on shame, worthlessness, despair, and desperation that are connected to their physical symptoms.
What they did
Researchers interviewed 10 women with PMDD. They asked about their emotional experiences and analyzed what patterns emerged in their stories.
What they found
The women's experiences showed emotional patterns of shame, worthlessness, despair, and desperation that were connected to physical and bodily reactions.
What it means for you
Understanding these emotional patterns could help therapists treat PMDD with emotion-focused therapy. The main limit is that this was a very small study of only 10 women, so the patterns may not be the same for everyone.
10
women interviewed
2
main themes identified
8
subcategories of patterns
About the study
- Original title
- Identification of emotion schemes in women with premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) using an emotion-focused therapy (EFT) approach: A qualitative study
- Authors
- Dehnavi SI, Mortazavi SS, Ramezani MA et al.
- Journal
- Journal of education and health promotion
- Year
- 2024
- Study design
- Interview study
- Participants
- 10
- Open access
- Yes
- Read the paper
- doi.org/10.4103/jehp.jehp_935_23
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