HOW MENOPAUSE CAN AFFECT YOUR MENTAL HEALTH

How menopause can affect your mental health and contribute to anxiety

It can cause bipolar disorder

Researchers suggest that there is higher hormonal shift sensitivity among women with bipolar disorder. Reports confirm more depressive symptoms among women in menopause than those lacking. It is due to reduced estrogen that mainly happens during menopause.

Depression

According to research, women that undergo postpartum depression have increased chances of getting extreme mood swings during menopause. Even those with clinical depression history possibly experience it during menopause.

Schizophrenia

Research suggests that estrogen reduction, especially during menopause can stimulate mental issues, including schizophrenia psychosis. The condition begins mostly at young adulthood, but it may increase during menopause. Those with pre-existing schizophrenia may have worse symptoms when ill and need more medication at menopause.

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Psychologist and a Sex and Relationships Advisor at shopgiejo.com

Ieva Kubiliute is a psychologist and a sex and relationships advisor and a freelance writer. She's also a consultant to several health and wellness brands. While Ieva specialises in covering wellness topics ranging from fitness and nutrition, to mental wellbeing, sex and relationships and health conditions, she has written across a diverse range of lifestyle topics, including beauty and travel. Career highlights so far include: luxury spa-hopping in Spain and joining an £18k-a-year London gym. Someone’s got to do it! When she’s not typing away at her desk—or interviewing experts and case studies, Ieva winds down with yoga, a good movie and great skincare (affordable of course, there’s little she doesn’t know about budget beauty). Things that bring her endless joy: digital detoxes, oat milk lattes and long country walks (and sometimes jogs).

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