PMDD and RLS LOL!!

I recently read an article about a woman who suffered from RLS or Restless Leg Syndrome. It is a condition in which a person has the uncontrollable urge to keep moving around. The person cannot sleep at night because his or her legs tingle and he or she simply must get up and walk around. The article stated that the woman's son often found her asleep on the bathroom floor or the hallway. Apparently, she'd become so exhausted, she'd just fall over in whatever room she was in an go to sleep.

Exactly three weeks after I'd read the story, I began to see countless commercials for drugs that relieve the symptoms of RLS. And I don't watch much TV so you can imagine how many ads there were!

I thought to myself, "They're making this stuff up!"

I love the fact how conditions like tingling legs suddenly get three-letter names along with a line of drugs right behind it. We used to call it Charley Horses.

I also saw a commercial for a birth control pill called Yaz. In the ad, a young lady describes how she would become overly emotional a week before her period. The girl goes on to say that her doctor stated it was not, in fact PMS, like we've been suffering for millennium, but PMDD.

PMDD? What's that? I dunno because the ad does not go on to describe what the letters stand for. They probably don't want to say what the letters stand for because I'll make an entire issue out of it. Either way, I'm calling in sick on Monday saying I have PMDD. No one would know what the heck I talking about.

Likewise, when did ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) become ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)?
First of all, ALL kids are hyper unless they are ill. ALL people have ADD at some point in the day. I tend to get it right around the end of the work day when I am thinking I am about to get off and I have errands and chores to do and I have to get on the computer and make lunches and call my mom and take a shower and cook and eat dinner---!!

Does that mean I need medication? Maybe I'm just being overly emotional about the whole thing.