MENTAL HEALTH AND PERIMENOPAUSE

MENTAL HEALTH AND PERIMENOPAUSE

How perimenopause affects mental health, and how it should be addressed in a therapeutic setting.

Perimenopause comes with hormonal changes that impact mood. It’s the stage where you get more concerned about aging and can be worse. Such changes depression and anxiety. To manage the condition, especially with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy(CBT), the therapist will address negative emotions and thoughts. This is useful in regulating anxiety and depression. CBT also helps manage night sweats and hot flashes.

Ieva Kubiliute

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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