"A woman's mind often reels under such rising and falling over many months. A couple of studies published in 2006 showed that when ovaries stop working, women's mental health might suffer, too."

"Half of one sample of women with no previous history of depression experienced their first clinical depression during an eight-year period around menopause. The risk for a first episode of depression is at least doubled by menopause. Hot flashes and insomnia made depression more likely, as did stressful events. Menopause seems to lower the threshold for stress-induced depression."

"These recent studies begin to correct an embarrassing oversight. The first 40 years of depression research, driven almost exclusively by men, paid little or
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