Abbie Chatfield

So then when you experience that, if you do have PMDD, you go same with endo.

You go, oh, this is normal.

Everyone's feeling this level of pain or even pain during sex like with vaginismus.

Women are told that our experience is inherently painful and uncomfortable mentally and physically.

So then with PMDD, it's like, well, yeah, you're right.

My friends are also saying they're feeling a bit hormonal.

For them, does that mean lying in bed in a fetal position?

All day?

Probably not.

Probably just means, you know.

Yeah, I don't think that it is true because I personally – I have like slightly painful periods.

Like I'll have like one day of bad cramping.

I've also got the IUD now.

But like I am very fortunate to never have had a painful, painful period.

So when I see my friends like keeling over, even in high school, I would go, hey, like that feels like really extreme.

And then, you know, they go, oh, no, it's just having a period.

When in reality it's like that's –

It's not good to be vomiting from pain for a period.

It is and I feel like we don't have the language yet to actually or even the understanding of

not just from medical professionals but just from society in general to have conversations about these things.