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A 32 year old woman is interested in becoming pregnant and has been carefully tracking her menstrual cycles for 10 months. While doing so, she notices a pattern of interpersonal conflict, mood swings, self-deprecating thoughts, feelings of being on edge, and specific food cravings that starts in the final week before the onset of menses, improves within a few days after the onset of menses, is absent in the week postmenses. She stopped her oral contraceptives one year ago, is otherwise healthy, and is taking no other medications. She does not use drugs or alcohol. The intensity of her behavior has caused problems in her marriage including intense verbal arguments, and her husband is now expressing fear about having children together. What condition most accurately describes her pattern of behavior change?