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PMDD

This is me when PMDD strikes. My voice even sounds different during that time of month… flat…and lifeless. Like how I feel on the inside.

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I first heard about PMDD, or Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder, when my first son was a year and a half old. Having just survived the number one killer of new moms, postpartum depression, I couldn’t understand why my life was still marked by ups and downs. As I slowly returned to myself again, a frustrating cycle appeared: two good weeks followed by two bad weeks. Two weeks of feeling on top of the world, “I’m actually beating this” to two weeks of “I’m crazy; I hate life” lying on the couch depressed again. What was wrong with me?

That’s when a friend who was in nursing school said,

“Marissa, I don’t think you have postpartum depression anymore. I think you have what I’ve been studying about in my class recently. It’s called PMDD.”

That day changed my life.

To learn more about what PMDD is, click here.

Welcome!

Hi! I’m Marissa. I have a passion to see those with depression find help and healing. I’m a wife, mom, and Jesus follower who has survived postpartum depression as well as reoccuring depression, anxiety & PMDD.

God has done such a huge work in me–all while living and doing ministry in Alaska, an unlikely place for a depressed person to thrive.
I hope something in my story encourages you. Even if you are depressed, you are NOT alone!

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