If you have an anxiety disorder, your symptoms may get worse at that time of the month.

Out of nowhere, your heart starts racing, your brain feels like someone is squeezing it, your mind goes to dark places, and you just don’t feel quite right. The anxiety may be related to a specific cause or it may be a free-floating sense of doom. Instead of occurring at any time, like generalized anxiety disorder, this prickly feeling seems to coincide with the onset of menstruation…

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