Review, 2022
Does mood and anxiety worsen during menstruation?
Yes. Psychiatric disorders occur during menstruation in up to 80% of women and can affect menstrual health, fertility, and sexual function.
What they did
Reviewed scientific literature on mental health problems during menstruation, pregnancy, and postpartum.
What they found
Psychiatric disorders reach 80% incidence during menstruation and other reproductive phases. These are risk factors for delayed or shortened periods, inadequate emotional reactions, cycle disruptions, decreased sexual satisfaction, fertility problems, pregnancy loss, reduced lactation, and early menopause.
What it means for you
Mental health and menstrual health are closely connected. Treatment should be personalized based on individual risk factors including family history and other health conditions. This is a review of existing research, not original data collection.
80%
Incidence of psychiatric disorders in reproductive phases
About the study
- Original title
- Diagnosis and Therapy of Psychosomatic Disorders in Reproductive Cycle of Women in General Medical Practice (Review)
- Authors
- V. E. Medvedev
- Journal
- The Russian Archives of Internal Medicine
- Year
- 2022
- Study design
- Review
- What was tested
- Personalized mental health treatment
- Open access
- Yes
- Read the paper
- doi.org/10.20514/2226-6704-2022-12-4-276-284
Original abstract
The incidence of different psychiatric disorders (affective, anxious, dysmorphic, psychotic) during menstruation, pregnancy and the postpartum period reaches 80 %. Mental disorders are risk factors for the delayed onset and shortening of menstruations, manifestation of the premenstrual syndrome (PMS), inadequate emotional reactions during menstruations, disruptions in the menstrual cycle, decreased regularity and satisfaction of sexual activity, fertility, pregnancy failure, reduction of the lactation period, early onset of menopause with long duration and clinical severity of premenopause, etc. An individual approach to treatment should take into account risk factors (heredity, comorbid disorders, sex, age, etc.) of adverse events (AD), the balance of efficacy and safety of drugs
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