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
159 - Raising awareness of HRT in the community in Ireland with Pharmacist, Victoria Jones
158 - Pushing against social and political constraints on women’s health with Dr Heather Hirsch
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
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