Have you had a look at Prof Studd's website? He is a leading expert on hormonal depression, anxiety and severe PMS.
He speaks about how far too many women are misdiagnosed with clinical depression or an anxiety disorder, when in fact it is all down to fluctuating hormone levels. He says these misdiagnosed women can spend their lives seeing psychiatrists and taking a whole shed load of drugs, when really they just need hormonal therapy.
Have a read through his case studies, and see if you might recognise yourself. He cites women who have been treated for bi polar for years, but after starting hormone therapy have made a full recovery within 3 months.
Do you get a handful of 'good' days per month, where you feel quite a bit better and more like your old self? If you do, then it's almost guaranteed that all your anxiety, depression and panics are simply being triggered by an acute sensitivity to hormonal fluctuations.
It might sound very far fetched, but it's absolutely true. I have always suffered with PMS and also had PND, so this proves I am acutely sensitive to hormonal levels.
Going into my 40s suddenly my PMS got 100 times worse, and with it came a dreadful anxiety that can make me feel absolutely wretched inside, to the extent I could heave and my hands tremble. I can also feel so low and depressed that I can't even bring myself to smile at my
But I still also get a run of days each month where I have no anxiety and feel like my usual self. This wouldn't happen if I had clinical depression or an anxiety disorder
