Dialectical behaviour therapy is accepted treatment for borderline personality disorder, but could it help with premenstrual dysphoric disorder? 

Australian psychologists and psychiatrists have published a paper in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry outlining the first dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT)-informed treatment model for the disorder. 

It takes the skills-based component of DBT — teaching coping strategies across the modules of mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness — and maps this against the corresponding premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) symptoms. 

Melbourne psychologist Sharryn Muir, who has lived experience of the disorder, began developing the model after noticing “an absolute dire need for it”.