Is menopause seen as a form of mental illness by medical doctors?

Question

Since when did the medical field get the bright idea that the same medication used to treat mental illness is good to treat women who are in menopause? Prozac for hot flashes & anxiety caused by lack of sleep from my body just trying to readjust to a new level of hormones does not seem like a sane idea to me. I'll keep my hot flashes, thank you. Has anyone else ever heard of this? Sounds dangerous to me.

Sorry, but anything that messes with my seratonin is NOT a good thing & where do people get the idea that it is "safe". People die on this stuff. I only have anxiety when I'm at a doctors office.

Answer 1

It's nonsense. This country is nuts..... natural is best... our bodies are marvelous...... menopause is a natural process - and women have been dealing with it since the beginning of time. No one wants a minor inconvenience anymore. We're so spoiled.

I'm not saying some people have valid problems and medicine is there to help - but only if the person is in dire straits .... the medical community makes everything a 'problem, disease, etc. Sometimes there's a true problem - most of the time, it's 'life'. I'm more of an 'alternative medicine' person.... haven't had a cold in 22 years, control my own arthritis (after being told I should be on prescriptions)... nope.....as long as I can handle it.

So... the same goes with menopause - it's inconvient for a while, maybe you get a little dingy & some hot flashes but - it passes.

Answer 2

No, classically faith isn't outlined as a variety of intellectual health problem, no less than within the United States wherein her forefathers have been devout. Atheists often deal with faith with the equal variety of cynicism as a mathematician could deal with philosophy, nonetheless every nonetheless performs a principal function in society whether or not the opposing facet is approving or now not. How might an atheist thinker deliver you the Gregorian Calendar date if it were not for numbers representing years Anno Domino (after the beginning of Christ). Likewise, how might a Christian mathematician evangelize atheists with out philosophical manner? Extreme obsession with one detailed discipline, adding faith, can also be categorized as a intellectual health problem because the society defines it. This doesn't suggest that every one devout individuals are to be categorized as mentally unwell inasmuch as any person who cries is categorized with melancholy. Schizophrenics have simply as so much capability to listen to God talk as they do to listen to voices of different beings reminiscent of individuals or extraterrestrial beings. The proven fact that greater than 50% show those delusions are of a devout nature is maybe on the grounds that that those schizophrenic variety a subset of a tradition wherein greater than 50% of the populace has heard of the ones devout figures. As a long way as which got here first... that's the equal query because the fowl and the egg. Some consider they got here a the equal time even as others consider one outdated the opposite.

Answer 3

Prozac is used to treat *some symptoms* of depression, but it helps with some symptoms of anxiety, PMS, chronic pain, etc. etc. Prozac is not treating the illness itself, not really. I can say this-I get PMS really bad, and it does make my bipolar disorder worse, but I also get purely physical symptoms from PMS like joint pain and really sore breasts that have nothing to do with depression. When I take prozac, those physical symptoms are reduced dramatically. I asked my psychiatrist about it, and she says the latest thinking is that your brain cells don't "see" serotonin like they should when your hormones are fluctuating, so maybe that's where prozac comes in. For hormonal stuff, prozac is working by a different mechanism than it does on depression, because when it is used for depression, it takes weeks to work, but for pms/menopause, it works right away, almost like aspirin, it's so quick.

You know, aspirin is used for different things too, like a pain killer and a blood thinner. I'm sure there are lots of drugs like that,.that have a lot of good uses. And some people get a lot lot worse menopause symptoms than you do, so they may benefit from pills, if they need them.

Answer 4

Prozac is a seratonin reuptake inhibitor; it helps many people with anxiety, which in turn may help them to sleep. Taken at recommended dosages, it is not dangerous, and can be very helpful to a variety of different populations, very few of which are "mentally ill". That being said, if you don't want to take it, then certainly you don't have to. If you're only afraid of some stigma associated with taking it, then I would say that you need to educate yourself more about this very useful medication AND you need to quit worrying what somebody else might think.