Whether you're taking the Pill for contraception, or for your PMDD, you need to read this book. If you can't afford the book, then read Holly's blog of the same name. Make sure you are making an informed choice when you pop that pill in the morning for your PMDD. To quote author Laura Werschler, who wrote the foreword for Holly Grigg-Spall's book:
"Sweetening the Pill explores and challenges the ways in which the pill and other drug-based contraceptives damage women’s health, threaten our autonomy and thwart body literacy. What we don’t know about our bodies helps pharmaceutical companies “sell” their contraceptive drugs, and keeps us “addicted” to them... Prescribing the pill, or other forms of hormonal contraception, has become, in the minds of most health-care providers, the “standard of care” for being a girl. It is all too common to subjugate a girl’s menstrual cycle to synthetic hormones that superficially “regulate,” but actually suspend the maturation of her reproductive system. And for many girls, the use of hormonal contraception continues well into their 20s, without awareness of what might be or has been sacrificed."
This sacrifice can include, but is not limited to, your mental and emotional stability, both of which are defining symptoms of your PMDD.
For more information, go here, or here. Or even here. Learn about what you are putting into your body. You will be surprised at how many questions these resources will be able to answer.
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