Depression And Premenopause

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hello, Annala great power point as I was reading your power point I was thinking about depression and anxiety as well for diagnosis but started to think may be her symptoms could relate to premenopause as well. As patients who are going through premanopause also seem to examine themselves in self-criticism and could potentially place them at increased risk of developing depressive symptoms as they transition to menopause. According to the study by Mauas et al it makes several significant contributions to the current literature. First, they show that different processes may underlie irritable mood and depressive symptoms, as levels of both irritability and depressive symptoms seem to increase with the onset of the transition, but only irritability

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