In this episode, we welcome back fellow therapist Kasie Morgan to discuss the effects hormones might be having on your mental health. They start by covering what hormones are and that there are hundreds in our body. Because of this, those in the medical field are starting to see that the hormones not only affect the person’s body, but also their mental health.
Tune in to see How Hormones might affect Mental Health Through a Therapist’s Eyes.
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Episode #45 – Neurology of the Brain and Effects in our life with Gwen Wild, MOT, OTR/L
Episode #46 – Neurology of the Brain and Effects in our life with Gwen Wild, MOT, OTR/L Part 2
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Listen for the following takeaways from the Show:
- What are Hormones? https://www.news-medical.net/health/What-are-Hormones.aspx
- There are hundreds of hormones in our body and those have hundreds of subsets of hormones.
- The medical community is just not scratching the surface of what is going on in our bodies because of these.
- The hormone levels in a body fluctuate all the time.
- Best way to determine hormones affect is to do multiple tests over the course of a few days at different times versus once a year.
- Women need to be aware of there menstrual cycle when looking at their mental health because it does affect
- Men go through hormonal fluctuations just like women.
- It is more stigmatizing for a man to talk about this then it is for a woman.
- They discuss what the hormone cortisol does to a body as an example: https://www.yourhormones.info/hormones/cortisol/
- Just as those hormones need to be produced to be effective, they can easily be mis-produced causing unknown affects on the body.
- They talk about a few disorders that could be caused by the fluctuations in hormone levels.
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5434285/
- Prementstrual Dysphoric Disorder
- Borderline Personality Disorder
- While we really do not know what is going on with hormones, insight that your body affects your mental health helps when struggling when the different emotions and feelings you go through.
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Very informative show. Being a controlled with medication Hyperthyroid person, I can relate to the power of hormones, and even a slight fluctuation in levels is obvious to me and to others. Thank goodness my med works! I look forward to more shows with Kasey in the co-host seat. Great job, Chris and Kasey! I learned a lot.
This was a very fun show on a topic that not a lot of folks are talking about. I believe this is because we do not have a great amount of knowledge on hormone functioning especially related specifically to Mental Health. I am glad you found it informative because I can say I believe Hormones are the next bastion of research on Mental Health that is very much needed!