When a Mood Swing isn't a Mood Swing
What if I told you one day, around 50-ish, you would start to feel like your mental world was falling apart, you would have no control over events consuming your body, and your body would – literally – have a mind of its own? Think you might feel a little depressed? A little down? Weepy? Well, duh! Mood Swings are not uncommon during menopause. Hormones fluctuating, sleep evasion, weight gain in odd places, a general feeling of yuckiness, all contribute to a woman being a little more irritable than during a normal day. But when is a mood swing NOT a mood swing? When do you start to worry about the labile alterations in your affect being more than a little hormone flux? More than just the need for some extra Zzzzz’s? When do you start to worry that it’s really depression? Everyone who watches television or reads a magazine knows that depression is a hot button topic right now. There are a dozen new medications to treat all kinds of depression, and for all age groups...