{"id":29561,"date":"2025-05-23T23:23:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T23:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/my-pmdd-makes-me-scared-to-get-pregnant\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T23:23:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T23:23:58","slug":"my-pmdd-makes-me-scared-to-get-pregnant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/my-pmdd-makes-me-scared-to-get-pregnant\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;My PMDD makes me scared to get pregnant&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;I want to have a child, but I also want to be sane.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Marianne Barry, 29, from Cardiff, has pre-menstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), a condition which can cause symptoms of severe anxiety or even suicidal thoughts. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">It affects as many as 8% of women, yet the average wait time for a diagnosis is around 12 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The main treatment to manage PMDD symptoms is contraception, but for women like Marianne who wish to become pregnant this poses a dilemma.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">In a statement, the Welsh government said it was &#8220;determined to improve the diagnosis, treatment and awareness of conditions affecting women,&#8221; including PMDD.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\"><i id=\"video-edited-by-greg-davies\" class=\"sc-d16436d-0 fhKUCU\">Video edited by Greg Davies<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/cdj9x1prn1go\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I want to have a child, but I also want to be sane.&#8221; Marianne Barry, 29, from Cardiff, has pre-menstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), a condition which can cause symptoms of severe anxiety or even suicidal thoughts. It affects as many as 8% of women, yet the average wait time for a diagnosis is around 12 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[10175,4989,2076],"class_list":["post-29561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-pmdd","tag-pregnant","tag-scared"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29563,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29561\/revisions\/29563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}