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Mental Health Plays Part in Marital Bliss

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Mental Health Plays Part in Marital Bliss

Satisfaction with marriage is affected by the mental health of both spouses, says a study in the October issue of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. The study of 774 married couples from seven states in the …

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Mental Health Plays Part in Marital Bliss

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  1. I run a support group for women who suffer from extreme PMS (aka PMDD) and their spouses/partners. Over the course of 4 years of correspondence with 1000′s of people
    who have suffered with this disorder in their lives, I 100% agree with this study. The
    effect that stress and anxiety has upon marriage satisfaction is nowhere more obvious than in
    relationships disrupted by severe monthly PMDD. These effects also ripple down to the
    offspring of such unions with most detrimental outcomes, which manifest in a variety of
    ways, in the physical, psychological and emotional.

  2. what type of infortmation abut pmdd that is not widely known? can you explain dysphoric” relating to pmdd? what do you suggest as the best remedy for treating pmdd,why? what is a typical day for you suffering from this disorder?

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