The focus of this year’s World Menopause Day is cognition and mood. In this episode, Dr Louise Newson talks to Dr Clair Crockett, a GP and menopause specialist with an interest in mood, mental health and hormones. Clair’s interest in the topic stems from her own experience of escalating anxiety, low mood and intrusive thoughts in the premenstrual phase of her cycle during her mid-to-late 30s. Through her own research, she looked for ways to help her symptoms including through lifestyle changes, supplements and antidepressants. While these all helped some aspects of her mental health, it wasn’t until she began taking HRT that the premenstrual mental health symptoms eased.
The experts discuss the importance of considering hormones when helping women experiencing mental health problems and outline some of the ways they are working to improve education about menopause and mental health amongst healthcare professionals.
Clair’s tips to women with mental health symptoms in perimenopause and menopause:
If you’d like to read more about Clair’s personal experience of mental health and hormones, you can read her story here.
157 - Science based weight reduction that lasts with Dr Saira Hameed
156 - Educating women, improving access to treatment and influencing those in power with Dr Sharon Malone
155 - Weight loss, diabetes and menopause with Dr Clare Bailey and Dr Michael Mosley
154 - How pharmacists can improve menopause care in your GP practice and community with Rupa Lyall
153 - Learning how to prescribe HRT as a GP trainee with Dr Thulasi Naveenan
152 - Irritable bowel, bloating and digestive health with The Gut Experts
151 - Unpicking UTIs and the role of hormones with Dr Rajvinder Khasriya
150 - The effects of trauma, gender bias and the peri/menopause with Dr Jan Smith
149 - What I have learnt since falling in love with menopause care with Dr Abbie Laing
148 - Plant-based living with Happy Pear’s Dave and Steve Flynn
147 - Changing minds about food and diets with Dr Robert Lustig
146 - Helping others feel less alone with POI with Ava Vanderstarren
145 - Raising awareness of endometriosis and surgical menopause with Vicki Shattock
144 - ZOE’s co-founder, Jonathan Wolf, on the future of nutrition science
143 - Fertility, pregnancy and perimenopause with Rhona and Tanya
142 - Losing my wife: was her perimenopause a contributing factor? With Peter Smith
141 - Helping organisations change their culture around menopause with Sarah Davies, Talking Menopause
140 - Addressing the emotional challenges of perimenopause and menopause with Simona Stokes
139 - ‘How my life experience has influenced me as a doctor’ with Dr Naomi Jiagbogu
138 - Explaining what the evidence shows to offer choice to women after breast cancer, with Avrum Bluming
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