Tag : Suicidal

Washington: A new global study published in BMC Psychiatry reports that 34 per cent of people with premenstrual dysphoric disorder have attempted suicide. The study, published in the journal BMC Psychiatry, is the largest of its kind to examine rates of suicidal thoughts and behaviours among people diagnosed with the disorder by a health care provider based on daily symptom ratings, the only reliable method currently available. Because previous studies of suicide and ideation have relied on less valid self-reported measures of premenstrual dysphoric disorder, which is commonly called PMDD, the new findings offer the strongest scientific evidence to date that the disorder is likely an independent contributor to suicidal thoughts and actions. "We've uncovered an extremely worrying rate of suicide ideation and attempts among those with PMDD, highlighting the need to take this issue seriously," said Tory Eisenlohr-Moul, assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Illinois Chicago and lead author of the study. "These findings offer powerful evidence that the link between PMDD and suicide is independent of depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, or other mental health conditions that are known to increase ideation and attempts." The premenstrual dysphoric disorder is a cyclical, hormone-based disorder that impacts approximately 1 in 20 reproductive-age women who were assigned female at birth. The condition is often underdiagnosed, misdiagnosed or dismissed entirely by medical professionals, despite patient reports of debilitating anxiety, hopelessness and a variety of physical symptoms in the two weeks before menses. To better understand PMDD, the researchers analyzed information from the Global Survey of Premenstrual Dis ...