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Pre Menstrual Syndrome (PMS) and Psychotherapy

Premenstrual syndrome effects over 70% to 90% of women before menopause in the US and less for women in Southeast Asia because of their difference in living style and social structure. Premenstrual syndrome is defined as faulty function of the ovaries related to the women's menstrual cycle, it effects a women's physical and emotional state, and sometimes interferes with daily activities as a result of hormone fluctuation. The syndrome occurs one to two weeks before menstruation and then declines when the period starts. In this article, we will discuss how Chinese herbs use to treat PMS.

I. Definition
Psychotherapy is one form of medical treatment used by trained psychologist to treat patient with problem of living including nervous tension and symptoms of PMS through interpersonal relationship.

II. How psychotherapy helps to treat women with PMS
1. Cognitive therapy
Cognitive therapists believe there are direct relationship between how we think, feel and behaviour. By changing the women thinking during menstrual cycle including before ovulation, it will help to reinforce the positive behaviour resulting in reducing the symptoms of PMS.

2. Interpersonal therapy
It is short term supportive psychotherapy which helps to focus and restore the positive effect of the interrelationship between people that has been lost because of nervous tension such as depression for some women with PMS.

3. Behavioural therapy
Behavioural therapy is another form of psychological treatment which helps to study the patient by observing overt behaviour without discussing internal mental states caused by depression for some women for a few days before ovulation. By stripping the confusing surround the problem of PMS with a more scientific base, it helps to restore the positive thinking resulting in lessening the nervous symptom of PMS.

4. Psychodynamic therapy
the primary focus of psychodynamic therapy is to reveal the unconscious content of a patient psyche and interpersonal relationship between a patient and therapist more than other forms of depth psychology in an effort to alleviate psychic tension. By treating treat the discomfort associated with the poorly formed function it helps to re enforce the positively form function resulting in reducing the symptoms of nervous tension.
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