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Article: Health: `PMS made me think I was going mad' Pre-menstrual syndrome is thought to affect up to 95 per cent of women. It drives some to the edge of insanity. Daisy Price reports on an ancient herbal remedy that could provide a cure
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 1, 2001
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Paula Bond was in her twenties when her pre-menstrual tension
began to run out of control. She began to experience bouts of
irrational anger. Her temper would cause her to start fights with
people in the street or while she was out shopping. "I really got
angry," she says, "but there was no rational explanation. I kept
thinking really terrible things and felt like I had to lock myself
away to prevent me from losing my rag. There were times when I felt I
could have killed someone - if a bus was late, I'd want to strangle
the bus driver. Other times I would get really weepy or my brain
would feel as if it was totally addled and I had no co-ordination."
It was several years before Paula, now ...