 I was around 14 years old. I can remember getting my period and telling one of my friends. I started my period. I remember feeling ashamed, frustrated because no one had had these conversations with me about, you know, what to do, who to go to. But I also felt like what I was experiencing wasn't what other people were experiencing. You know, I was feeling suicidal in the run-up to my periods. I was feeling withdrawn. I was feeling paranoid. I was feeling angry and it just wasn't why my friends were all just, they seemed to be going through it normally. And there was me like, why am I feeling like this? When my husband did eventually drag me to the GP after my youngest was born, she, you know, she spoke to my husband and my husband said, look, I'm worried my wife is not going to make it to next month. I am concerned that by next month she is going to be dead. By this point, I had already been diagnosed with depression, generalized anxiety disorder, bipolar disorder, emotionally unstable personality disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. She spoke to me. She listened to my husband and she said to me, has there ever been any point where you've not had the symptoms? And I said to her, yeah, whenever I've been pregnant and she said to me, have you ever heard of severe PMS? And I said to her, no. And she said, I don't think you've got any of the other things you've been diagnosed with. I think I'm confident. She said, this is what you've got. So almost instantaneously when I started my periods, my mom and my grandmother noticed that there was a link between my periods and my mental health. It was either the fact that nobody was willing to listen and make the connection or they weren't educated in PMDD. You know, my family had suffered greatly. My children had suffered greatly watching me go through what I'd gone through each month. And all because nobody had made this connection. There are various sources of support, information. One in 20 of us suffer from PMDD. You know, there is a whole community of us out there. We will hold you up. We will help you.