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What Is Reproductive Depression?

Had PMDD in your twenties, postnatal depression after having children, and now feel unlike yourself in perimenopause? These aren't separate problems. In this episode, Dr Georgina Standen explains reproductive depression — the idea that one underlying trait can show up again and again at every major hormonal transition in a woman's life.

In this episode:

Why PMDD, postnatal depression, contraceptive-related mood changes, and perimenopausal depression are so often treated as unrelated — and why that's a mistake

The biological reason this pattern recurs: what puberty, pregnancy, contraception…

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