Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Why your anxiety gets worse before your period:
Estrogen drops → serotonin drops.
Progesterone drops → GABA drops.

Your brain loses both its mood stabilizer and its anxiety buffer in the same week.

If it’s severe enough to impair functioning, that’s PMDD—and it’s treatable.

Send this to someone whose anxiety has a calendar.

What Your Psychiatrist Wants You to Know series — Part 10. Follow for Part 11.

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