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Premenstrual Syndrome

Premenstrual syndrome refers to a condition that almost 40 percent of women during child bearing years face just before their monthly period. Women experience bouts of depression, abdominal cramps and some complain ***** emotional disturbance as signs of premenstrual syndrome or PMS as it is commonly referred *****. Many psychologists ***** medical experts are of the view that PMS is not a physiologic*****l problem but ***** causes of th***** condition ***** mostly psychological because lower level of some hormones in the body can trigger negative and depressive thoughts lead*****g to mood wings before the periods. But whe*****r the ***** is a psychological one or not, the problem had been ign*****ed for ********** long before it was recognized as a real ***** condition which needed proper treatment, even of ***** ***** has more psychosocial factors than physiological, it ***** important ***** patients be given adequate an proper ***** because the problem becomes all to ***** for those who are suffering from an extreme case of PMS. MidLife Woman magazine (1994) writes, "Premenstrual ***** affects one third to ***** half ***** all American ***** between the ages of twenty and fifty. It is a condition depicted by ***** wide variety ***** cyclic *****, physical and behavioral *****s."

The his*****ry of PMS can be traced back to 1931 when a landmark research conducted by R.T Frank, which suggested that psychological and physiological, changes ***** women ***** ach month could be related to their hormonal cycle. The research was titled "The Hormonal Causes ***** Premenstrual Tension." This was the first-ever published report on the subject but it was only in 1950s that the term Premenstrual Syndrome was coined. The condition never found its way into the *****na of mainstream medical problems until 1970s but ***** ***** was form*****y listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual ***** Mental Disorders in 1987. This led to the recognition of ***** condition as a real ***** problem ***** required proper treatment. (UGARRIZA, 1998)

***** condition calls for the attention ***** medical ********** and experts ***** a l*****rge majority of American women are associating depressive and negative feelings with PMS. So far ***** 150 signs and symptoms have been identified ***** PMS ***** males ***** condition all the more serious and worth paying attention to. The wide range of ***** and ***** is the one reason why exerts believe that PMS is ***** being used as an umbrella term for a number of different though inter rel*****ted problems. Jane Trimble, founder of the ***** Clinic of Minneapolis found close to 27 common symptoms reported by most women she has so far worked with. (***** Woman, 1994)

Symptoms of PMS may differ from ***** person to another, but most women ***** of head*****e, emotional problems, lethargy ***** severe migraine. ***** the problem with PMS is that with ***** so varied and causes unknown, medical ***** ***** uncertain as ***** what kind ***** treatment would be most accurate. The inability of the ***** circle to find an