People who were assigned female at birth can experience mental health challenges that other people do not experience. Specifically, hormonal shifts can cause mental health issues around pregnancy, periods, and menopause.

Because women go through hormonal changes at specific times in life, their risk of developing mental health issues is biologically greater. Environmental stressors such as the pandemic can also increase these issues for women.

Mood and mental health play an important role in many aspects of women’s lives. They can affect relationships, self-esteem, work performance, and even their physical health, such as heart disease.

Too often in our society, people write these issues off as “just hormones” or as someone being “dramatic.” We should be acknowledging that women experience mental health problems as a result of their bodies going through hormonal shifts.

Women are three times more likely to develop mental health problems than men because they have a completely different hormonal system, which causes them to feel and experience things on a more emotional level.

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