Bryony Gordon: mental health, hormones and witchy magic | The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
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- Опубліковано 14 кві 2024
- This week on the podcast, journalist Bryony Gordon, bestselling author of several books including her latest, Mad Woman, explains how the perimenopause caused her to reconsider her mental health. Was her experience of OCD affected by her hormones and what would society look like if women’s health was taken more seriously?
Bryony shares her belief that there’s a “witchy magic” to menopause and that the issues it brings are the ones that you need to deal with and there is power in doing so.
Finally, Bryony shares three bits of advice to any woman being dismissed with “it’s just your hormones”:
1. Don’t dismiss yourself. Don’t discount your point of view or feelings just because they are yours. Maybe sometimes you're right, maybe sometimes you're wrong - that's OK.
2. It's OK sometimes to be bad. We all are. It’s just society wants us to live as women in a way that isn't very human.
3. Confidence is a trick. No one has confidence. I don't have confidence. I just have a will and a desperation not to spend the rest of my life hating on myself because it's such a waste of energy.
Follow Bryony on Instagram @bryonygordon her community organisation @Mental Health Mates
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Dr Louise you have changed my life with your knowledge and information, I almost lost my mind thinking and convincing myself that I am crazy, until I found your videos, I started HRT on 01-06-2024, I felt huge improvement in the physical symptoms but the mental symptoms is getting better slowly, but I also felt worse in some mental areas, no one was able to answer my questions until I found my answers in your talk today, you said the progesterone made feel worse but you started feeling better after, I think that what is happening to me now. I am very grateful for your attitude, knowledge and your life experience, keep going please 🙏
"Stop dismissing yourself, stop being a people pleaser, and build self-confidence by getting control over your hormones and your body! Let's build a commune of women, a human-archy - instead of being forced to lose control over our minds in this patriarchy!" 💪💕
AWESOME TALK! Thank you! It lifted me up, too. I would also like to come to the commune.
Everything you said is spot on! I was also using alcohol (and marijuana) to cope with perimenopause. I'm taking testosterone, estradiol, and progesterone now and it's a blessing to be sober! 🎉🌞🙏
Please continue your helpful work!
Thank you for this video. I know someone who's mental health went down around puberty. This helped me connect hormones with mental health! Thank you! ❤
If you please give us more details in how long it takes for the mental issues to improve,
Love the book, Women Who Run With The Wolves.
Loved this chat, thank you ❤❤
Humanarchy 💛