260 - Get comfortable with the uncomfortable: mental health and the menopause

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Medicine

4.8 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Content advisory: this podcast contains themes of suicide and mental health. This week on the podcast, Dr Louise is joined by Andrea Newton, a postmenopausal woman whose own experience of mental health during the menopause lead her to train as a tutor with the National Centre for Suicide Prevention Training. Over the last six years, Andrea has trained thousands of people in suicide intervention skills and she is now training to become a menopause coach. Andrea explains how her work in the corporate world has allowed her to share the importance of educating line managers, HR managers, and everyone about the menopause. She is also the author of the book, Could it be Your Hormones Love? (And Other Questions Not to Ask a Menopausal Woman). Andrea shares her tips on widening the conversation about menopause: Women need to educate themselves more about how the menopause affects all aspects of their health and be better at advocating for themselves. Let’s take the conversation to the wider audience and stop the awful, narrow, stereotypical view of menopause. Instead, educate people so we can avoid tribunals, retain talent and have more menopause-friendly businesses. Get comfortable with the uncomfortable and have conversations about things like menopause, mental health, suicide risk. We need to stop waiting for people to reach out, and we need to get better at reaching in and being proactive. You can follow Andrea on LinkedIn, Instagram @in.her.right.mind and Facebook @InHerRightMind Click here to find out more about Newson Health Contact the Samaritans for 24-hour, confidential support by calling 116 123 or email [email protected]. Related articles Westlund Tam L, Parry BL. (2003), ‘Does oestrogen enhance the antidepressant effects of fluoxetine?’, J Affect Disord. 77(1):87-92. Doi: 10.1016/s0165-0327(02)00357-9 Ibrahim WW, Safar MM, Khattab MM, Agha AM. (2016), ‘17β-Estradiol augments antidepressant efficacy of escitalopram in ovariectomized rats: Neuroprotective and serotonin reuptake transporter modulatory effects,’ Psychoneuroendocrinology. 74: 240-250. 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2016.09.013

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Dr Louise Newsome. I'm a GP and menopause specialist, and I'm also the founder of the Newsome Health Menopause and wellbeing centre here in Stratford-Pon-Avon.
0:21.6	I'm also the founder of the free Balance app.
0:25.6	Each week on my podcast, join me and my special guests where we discuss all things perimenopause
0:31.6	and menopause. We talk about the latest research, bust myths on menopause symptoms and treatments,
0:38.2	and often share moving and always inspirational personal stories.
0:43.7	This podcast is brought to you by the Newsome Health Group,
0:46.9	which has clinics across the UK dedicated to providing individualised perimenopause and menopause care for all women.
1:02.7	Today on the podcast, I've got someone called Andrea Newton with me, who reached out to me
1:07.5	on social media through the internet, as many of my contacts have, and told me
1:12.8	the most amazing story about herself, but also about the work she does. So we're going to spend
1:17.4	the next half hour really exploring it. And it's not an easy listen, but it's definitely worth
1:23.1	listening. So, Andrea, welcome to the podcast. Thank you so much for agreeing to come today. No problem at all. Thank you for having me.
1:30.9	So we were just trying to work out how to introduce you because you're a woman of many talents and I think all women have many talents actually and I can say that as a woman. And most of us actually don't like talking about are many talents. We just say, oh, I am just a doctor,
1:44.6	I'm just a mother, I'm just a whatever. But actually, we are often more than just something.
1:49.0	So you are a speaker, a trainer, a author, and also a menopausal woman, and lots else as well.
1:59.4	So if you don't mind, just telling me a bit about you as a person and then
2:04.0	we'll talk about your work in a bit if that's okay. Yeah, sure. Actually, I'm a bit of a woman on a
2:08.7	mission, actually, Louise. Good. I'm one of those too. Not unlike your good self. But me personally,
2:14.9	I am 56 years of age, which I think that's important too. Let's talk about the age thing.
2:20.7	I went through a really difficult divorce, very stressful, outside agencies involved, all sorts of stuff, which basically left me in a bit of a state.
2:32.8	And even when that was all finished and done and life was so much
2:37.4	lighter and brighter than it had been for many years, my low mood, my depression, my anxiety
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