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Whether she’s crafting an impassioned Instagram caption, giving evidence to a Parliamentary Select Committee or writing to health secretary Wes Streeting, Vicky Pattison has become a powerful ally to women who share her diagnosis of PMDD, and a mouthpiece for the harms of medical misogyny. Fronting our annual issue dedicated to the messy work of mental health maintenance, she gets honest about what’s going on for her, right now