Content advisory: this podcast contains themes of mental health and suicide.
On this week’s episode of the Dr Louise Newson Podcast, Anna Geldard shares her story of how her mental health was severely affected by menopause.
Anna tells Dr Louise how therapy and medication had helped her successfully manage her obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and mild depression symptoms for over a decade. But out of the blue, Anna’s symptoms returned and quickly spiralled. Anna was admitted to hospital, on six psychiatric drugs but still didn’t feel better.
Thankfully, after learning about the impact of hormones on mental health and being prescribed HRT, things changed for the better.
Anna’s top three tips:
1. Have more open conversations, starting from at home with the kids. This will filter through society, making menopause less of an unspoken thing and more of a just another thing about the body.
2. Make sure your resources are evidence based. There's a lot of information on social media, so just make sure that whoever you're listening to is appropriately qualified.
3. Advocate for yourself. If your symptoms are hormone related and you're being told you're too young or whatever, try again and don't just give up at that first hurdle.
Anna is on Instagram @Hormones.on.her_mind. Find out more about OCD through charities OCD-UK and OCD Action.
Contact the Samaritans for 24-hour, confidential support by calling 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org
079 - Media & the Menopause - Nadia Sawalha & Dr Louise Newson
078 - Urogenital Symptoms of the Menopause - Lavinia Winch & Dr Louise Newson
077 - Spoon-Fed: Food & Tim Spector - Tim Spector & Dr Louise Newson
076 - Menopause and Employment Law - Victoria Duddles & Dr Louise Newson
075 - Premature Menopause & Fertility - Dr Rebecca Gibbs & Dr Louise Newson
074 - HRT Prescriptions in England - Dr Sarah Hillman & Dr Louise Newson
073 - Menopause in the Media - Kaye Adams & Dr Louise Newson
072 - The Menopause Charity - Vanessa Barnes & Dr Louise Newson
071 - Women’s Health Magazine - Claire Sanderson & Dr Louise Newson
070 - Bone Health & World Osteoporosis Day - Julia Thomson & Dr Louise Newson
069 - Managing Menopause as a New GP - Gregory Monk & Dr Louise Newson
068 - Going Through a Teenage Menopause - Ellie Waters & Dr Louise Newson
067 - Genitourinary Syndrome of the Menopause - Professor James Simon & Dr Louise Newson
066 - Gut Health and Addiction - Lindsey Beveridge & Dr Louise Newson
065 - HIV, Menopause & Sophia Forum - Sophie Strachan, Dr Nneka Nwokolo, Dr Jacqui Stevenson & Dr Louise Newson
064 - Early Menopause and Fertility - Jon Hughes & Dr Louise Newson
063 - Psychosexual Medicine and Menopause - Dr Stephanie Goodwin & Dr Louise Newson
062 - Menopause and Contraception - Dr Philippa Kaye & Dr Louise Newson
061 - The Hormone Pharmacist - Lindsey Lester & Dr Louise Newson
060 - Menopause Education & Fourteen Fish - Dr Mark Coombe & Dr Louise Newson
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