In medicine in general women 45-55 and men 50-60 age group stage. call menopause. Menopause is an important stage in life, the physiological changes in the larger stage, resistance to disease reduced immune function, neuroendocrine system function gradually decline, lower hormone levels. often lead to a series of physical illness and emotional changes, and also suffered from work, study, family, marriage as well as all sectors of society, thereby also the obvious psychological changes. Have gender differences in the age of menopause, which is the body with endocrine function and the degree of gonadal dysfunction. Generally the male gonad and the endocrine system dysfunction slower than females, the male than female menopause later.
Menopause occurred in menopausal depression is a common mental disorders. Menopausal depression patients often as an incentive to some physical or mental factors, the more meaningful event and physical disease; Patients often physiological and psychological changes. Most of the physiological function of the digestive system changes, the autonomic nervous system and cardiovascular system for the main symptoms : loss of appetite, upper abdominal discomfort, dry mouth, constipation, diarrhea, heart palpitations, blood pressure, pulse rate or slower, chest tightness, the limbs are numb and cold. fever, loss of libido, sleep disorders and menstrual changes, dizziness and general malaise. Physiological changes often before symptoms appeared, with the condition often heavier, After somatic symptoms disappeared after treatment than the symptoms early.
Depression onset of menopause generally slow, progressive development, longer course and began to display more symptoms of neurasthenia, such as insomnia, malaise, dizziness, headaches, irritability and other physical discomfort. Patients often depressed, sullen, anxious, worried too much about the accident occurred, to recall the feelings of pessimism. comparisons with the present, concerns the future. Young and promising that their past, the great accomplishments, and now over fifty years old, like a "twilight, almost dusk." feeling depressed, thinking slow, slow, self energy shortage, you honor of the usual favorite thing uninteresting. particularly susceptible to fatigue, has not eased after the break, was a "will to eat, not General useless. "often feel doom. and touching heaven and stamped their feet, others struggle phenomenon. Repeatedly recalled always an unpleasant experience, when memories of the past, has had some minor shortcomings and mistakes, often regret forever, and that his family brought irreparable damage to the country, should be punished, deserved the punishment of death. Even worse, some memories of the past life of a trivial matter, and if someone did not apologize altercation occurred, which have been "a big mistake". Irreparable, on this basis, that the patients themselves not only useless, but guilty, the people around him are in discussions. He even murdered someone, psychotic symptoms of paranoia, paranoia, paranoia self-incrimination.
Many patients with suspected disease vague paranoia and delusion, that is excessively concerned about their body. feeling very sensitive to some minor discomfort that has been dirty for their own decay, bone fracture, blood dried up, suffering from terminal illness. no medicine to cure it, this fear and anxiety. There are no patients that their only real physical body, have become untrue think all things around, vague. unpredictability.

This article was posted on 2007-02-27