The Romantasy Therapist

Do you or someone you know experience changes to mental health before a period or associated with pregnancy, breastfeeding, the perimenopause or menopause?

Women experience a lot of hormonal challenges over their lifetime which often go unrecognised. Worse, some people fail to seek help or talk about their experiences because there’s associated shame. So often, any change in women’s mood is put down to hormones and then dismissed.

What that often means is that real life issues, like work stress, relationship or sexual problems are attributed to hormonal issues. And what ends up happening is that neither any hormonal issues nor any real life problems are taken seriously by either the woman experiencing them or other people, including other women.

Women are effectively groomed by others not to look after themselves but to be very good at looking after other people.

This has to stop. We all have a right to be appreciated for what we do and to be supported when we’re struggling.

It’s time all the women who are hiding their hormonal problems sought help. And that all the women putting real life problems down to hormones demanded support. Go girls!TRT