why women get PMS and why some are more affected
- Written by Jayashri Kulkarni, Professor of Psychiatry, Monash University
Women have been menstruating throughout history. So it’s curious the earliest documented record of what we now know to be premenstrual syndrome (PMS) appeared pretty late in the game. In 1931, psychoanalyst Karen Horney described increased tension, irritability, depression and anxiety in the week preceding...