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Article: PMS: Women Tell Women How to Control Premenstrual Syndrome; Self-Help for Premenstrual Syndrome
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- October 1, 2000
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PMS: WOMEN TELL WOMEN HOW TO CONTROL PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME; SELF-HELP FOR PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME
Premenstrual Syndrome is a medical and physical condition, not a figment of women's imaginations.
This is the single message elicited by authors Stephanie DeGraff Bender and Kathleen Kelleher in PMS: Women Tell Women How to Control Premenstrual Syndrome, and Michelle Harrison and Marla Ahlgrimm in Self-Help for Premenstrual Syndrome.
Described by forerunning PMS researcher Katharina Dalton as "The world's commonest and probably the oldest disease," PMS only began to receive widespread attention in the early 1980s. Characterized by cyclical mood swings, disturbed sleep and appetite, irritability ...