Bonus: When hormones are missed in mental health
The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
Dr Louise Newson
4.7 • 933 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Dr Louise Newson is joined by mental health nurses Jayne and Diane to discuss the often overlooked role of hormones in women’s mental health.
Drawing on their experience working in mental health services, they share how hormonal changes are rarely considered when women present with symptoms such as anxiety, depression or mood changes. As a result, many women are given psychiatric diagnoses and medications without anyone exploring whether hormones may be contributing.
Together they discuss the impact this can have on women’s lives, the need for better education for healthcare professionals and why simple questions about hormones should become routine in mental health care.
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| 0:00.0 | So today on my podcast, I've got two lovely ladies. They're both work in mental health |
| 0:08.6 | and they've personally had a experience, but they've also witnessed a lot. And once you see |
| 0:16.3 | hormonal changes, you can't unsee them. And once you have knowledge, you want to share it because |
| 0:21.9 | you want other people to learn from other people's experiences. And actually, that's what we do as |
| 0:27.1 | women, isn't it? We just share and then we make decisions ourselves. So Jane and Diane, I just welcome |
| 0:33.8 | you to the podcast studio. And thanks for both of you giving up your time to come today. |
| 0:38.1 | Thank you, Louise. Thanks so much for having us. I'm a mental health nurse and I'm also 49 and experiencing this wonderful time of life and have had my own struggles with that. |
| 0:50.0 | But more importantly, I think it's made me recognise how the hormonal impact on mental health for women, when women come into our service. |
| 1:00.0 | And yeah, and it's something that I'm struggling with. It's something that I struggle to advocate for because there just isn't enough knowledge and it's just not spoken about. |
| 1:10.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:11.0 | What about you, Diane? |
| 1:12.8 | Yep. |
| 1:13.0 | So I'm also a mental health nurse. |
| 1:14.8 | I'm a CBT therapist and I've just recently finished my master's degree in mental health |
| 1:20.3 | specialising in the menopause and the efficacy of CBT for base of motor symptoms and like yourself and Jane you know I've |
| 1:32.3 | experienced so many women coming into mental health services being you know with |
| 1:37.1 | diagnostic overshadowing being misdiagnosed being put on antipsychotics anti-anxiety medications |
| 1:46.1 | and so |
| 1:48.0 | yeah we've |
| 1:49.0 | we see it all the time |
| 1:51.5 | so my kind of |
| 1:52.7 | hope is that I can bring |
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