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I would also love to see more research on how puberty hormones affect anxiety in young teen or teen girls.  I’ve seen so many that are sudden fly struck by crushing anxiety within a year or so of getting their period and who are then significantly better by 8th grade or so.  Now living through perimenopause i think there is insufficient understanding of how female hormones contribute to anxiety.  [/quote]

This is really wise. I’m a parent to a kid who’s been absolutely leveled by anxiety (including panic attacks, suicidal ideation, depression, and ocd-like symptoms) correlating almost perfectly with the start of her period. My kid also has ongoing PMDD symptoms and there seem to be few avenues to discuss treatment options. I would love to see the medical profession try to tackle what is happening with these girls.[/quote]

Teen girls have always been susceptible to enormous emotional volatility at the time of onset of puberty; this transcends culture and time. I have genuinely wondered before if this is an evolutionary adaptation that is maladaptive to modern life. In other words, the Neolithic teen girl of who had an enormously heightened sense of anxiety that came with the onset of puberty was probably more likely to survive the onset of fertility (e.g. avoid male predation) and if she became pregnant, her child would be more likely to live. And then you add in all the hormone-mimickers that are in plastics, some processed foods, etc, and teen girls today get an additional hit at the same time they are also exposed to the known new harm of social media.

It is appalling how little we know about hormonal impact on women, in short. [/quote]

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