Stress is so important in PMS that it warrants this whole chapter of its own. The research just emerging shows mat PMS and stress go hand-in-hand. If you have a lot of stress in your life you are more likely to develop PMS. Women with PMS often have more stress in their lives than women without the condition, according to Dr Jane Chihal from Texas, USA.”Perhaps stress predisposes the patient to PMS or perhaps the syndrome can be perceived as a type of inner stress. If a patient also experiences external stress, the total stress “load” may exacerbate the severity of her symptoms,” she says.Professor Shaughn O’Brien of Keele University in the UK agrees. Although he runs a ‘conventional’ PMS clinic he advocates the use of relaxation and stress management techniques to help relieve PMS.Stress is something that we generate inside ourselves in response to ‘stressors’. Stressors can be major events such as crumbling relationships, a dead-end job or delinquent children – but they can also be simply the accumulating daily hassles of constant deadlines and snatched meals. In other words, they can be anything that leads to stress.*38\120\4*
STRESS AND PMS
Posted: April 16th, 2011 under Women's Health.
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