When Menopause Makes You Moody

This episode was prompted by the following question:

“Will hormone therapy help with emotional lability, dysthymia, and crying jags? “

  In this episode, I discuss: 

• How common it is to have depressive symptoms during perimenopause
• The difference between depressive symptoms and depression
• The difference between cognitive symptoms and mood symptoms 
• The psychosocial impact of perimenopause on mood
• The biologic reason that a lack of estrogen causes emotional lability, sadness and other mood symptoms
• When hormone therapy helps..and when it doesn’t
• Non-hormonal options to alleviate mood symptoms

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Episode 23:  Welcome to Peri-menopause
Episode 32: Are Your Hot Flashes Making You Foggy: Forgetful? with Dr. Pauline Maki
Episode 71  Hormone Therapy for Cognitive Function?

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Lauren Streicher, MD is a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, and the founding medical director of the Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause. She is a certified menopause practitioner of the North American Menopause Society.

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Books by Lauren Streicher, MD

 Slip Sliding Away: Turning Back the Clock on Your Vagina-A gynecologist’s guide to eliminating post-menopause dryness and pain

Hot Flash Hell: A Gynecologist's Guide to Turning Down the Heat

Sex Rx- Hormones, Health, and Your Best Sex Ever

The Essential Guide to Hysterectomy