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@Lethe: Thank you! :D I like to make my sites as complete as possible, and I like to learn about new things--and y'all have had some great suggestions for added content! :D (Must be my English major side coming out again, with the "research" XD)

I agree, PMS/PMDD is not well-studied or even treated seriously, so finding unbiased research may be difficult...but I shall sally forth! *dundunDUNNNN*
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I agree with Lethe! I think you really take such an open approach and are really flexible to new ideas and I think that's super cool! :D

If you have trouble finding stuff or want to know more you can let me know. I'd be more than happy to help out. :> I don't think there's any deep diving articles out there but you might be able to find some good pubmed articles: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=PMDD

They also have ALL SORTS of depression articles holy moly. I did a search for just "depression" and got 337089 results. (Hope I'm not being a broken record over here so I apologize if I'm just rambling on ahah)
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@Destinie: It's all good! No rambling detected ^o^

Oh, and thank you for the PubMed link, I forgot all about journal research...d'oh!! xD

Yeah, depression is getting covered a LOT now, which is awesome, but the sheer amount of research is staggering. Distilling that down for an informational website can be craaaaazy xD
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I can see that! Wow! It's also nice to know that it's more widely accepted and studied now, even if it's not understood by a vast proportion of society. But maybe we'll get there some day :)
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I hope so! That's one of my aims with the depression info site--to humanize it and make it less a meaningless buzzword. So many folks think depression is "just sadness" and it is sooooo much different. >_<
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Yes, definitely! Or so many people who think you can "just get over it". And people don't realize that depression can take many forms and not all depression is "sad". I think your site really does help humanize it in that way and I think it's really a great idea to make something like this. :3
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YAY I finally added the Depression and PMDD section!

(hooray I finally got off my butt and did something besides binge watch Pokemon on Netflix)
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I may have said it before, but I like that particular page a lot because it gives you a condensed overview of things related to depression, that add or enhance depression or that may lead to or be a result of depression. I like the nuanced arguments in the second paragraph of the newly added part! \o/
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@Lethe: thank you!! I'm glad the page gives that overview--in my research, I kept finding that depression was related to or causing a ton of other ailments, so that's what inspired that section. (The PMDD section seems a little less unbiased than the others, but the research itself is a bit touchy, LOL)
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I know I keep saying it but I love it! xD
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