Posted by BarbaraCat on September 23, 2002, at 1:07:33
In reply to BPII/depression linked to endocrine probs?, posted by constance on September 20, 2002, at 10:02:57
You have got to read "Screaming to be heard: hormone problems women suspect and their doctors still won't listen" (second edition) by Elizabeth Vliet, MD. It is a mind blower. She very thoroughly explores the connection of hormones - all of them - and physical and especially mental problems. What's really fascinating is how she ties together all of the body systems interrelationships and the role hormones serve as communicators between those systems. There is a very direct relationship between estrogen/progesterone and neurotransmitters and vice versa.
Women have orders of magnitude more problems with depression and anxiety. You'd think doctors would make the correlation that our hormones have something to do with it. But in all my years of psychiatric history never has the balance of my hormones ever been addressed other than a brief look at my thyroid levels (and even that was mistreated since I needed T3 and not just T4). Oh, I could go on, grrrrrr!!! Women - Read this book!
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