I was diagnosed with PMDD and it made me question my Christian faith

Hena Bryan examines how living with Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder, challenges and reshapes her understanding of faith. Her reflection reveals how physical suffering can become a path to deeper spiritual honesty.

Faith, at its core, is a trust in the constancy of God, in his authorship of all things, seen and unseen, felt and unfelt. It is the conviction that even in silence, God remains active, shaping what we cannot yet understand. Scripture has always offered a framework for that trust: stories of wandering, waiting, and wrestling that assure us that doubt and suffering are not foreign to faith but woven through it. In every season of my life, the Bible has been my sustenance, its words both anchor and mirror, reminding me that even when my emotions falter, the Word remains steady.