I just wanted to clarify one thing, as a person who dismisses PMS as even being a thing, it is certainly not because I have not experienced it personally. I have had cramps, bloating, physical pain. I'm sure I've even been irritated by it and in short temper, as I almost always am when I'm in pain or discomfort. And anyways, I do believe in almost all other medical disorders even though I've probably only experienced a very small fraction of them.

The people who dismiss it as a thing do so primarily because it seems to be blatantly sexist. It's like in the old days when emotional women were diagnosed with "hysteria." PMS has long been used to totally discount anything women are saying. It has also long been used as an argument why women should not be in positions of high regard, like CEO's or politicians. Finally there is no scientific evidence it's a thing, and out of a number of studies done on it, there isn't a clear correlation that women experience monthly cyclical *****iness.

I know what you are thinking, and no, it's not that time of month for me.