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Menopause and mental disorders
Identifier
006746
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
In some people, the hormone fluctuations are so dramatic that they produce the equivalent of poisoning from the body's own endogenous chemicals.
In some people the damage is permanent brain damage
A description of the experience
Zh Nevropatol Psikhiatr Im S S Korsakova. 1991;91(2):96-100. [Mental disorders in women during menopause]. [Article in Russian] Tiuvina NA.
Altogether 126 patients with mental disorders of the non-psychotic nature, that occurred for the first time during menopause were examined.
Different vegetative disorders (hot flush, hyperhidrosis, blood pressure fluctuations, asphyxia sensation, numbness of the limbs, skin burning, chill, pruritus) played the leading part in the clinical picture.
The mental disorders manifested in the form of extensive age-related , asthenic, hysteric, phobic and depressive disorders. The long-term climacteric was likely to give rise to the formation of a pathological personality.
PMID: 1647642