Welcome to Is This Real Life, a Bravo podcast that relates our favorite shows to our own lives in the world around us.

I'm your host, Mandy Slutszer. Let's get to it.

Hi, everyone. I hope you're doing well and taking care of yourselves after what has been another

really tough week. And tough probably isn't even the right adjective for many women living in the

United States. I think devastating is probably more accurate. But I've found that this week, and like most weeks, it's just so important to be

able to take time for yourself to unplug from the media, from social media, from all of the

madness going around with Supreme Court and COVID and, you know, craziness in your own lives

and take some time for yourself to protect your inner peace. You know, this week has been

tough for my inner peace. I've shared with you guys before that I have a diagnosis of

primary ovarian insufficiency, which leads to premature menopause

and many other things. And to treat what I am dealing with right now, I have to be on birth control.

And the birth control that I've been on for the last number of months is having, it's not working so

great. So I switched birth controls.

And some interesting side effect I've been having is I started having panic attacks this

week. So I don't know if anyone else has ever, with a history of anxiety, has ever had

switches and birth control or hormone changes and it led to

drastic increases anxiety. But if you have, I would love to hear from you and what you did to

remedy that. If it just got better after a few weeks or if I just, I don't know. But it's,

it's been tough. But I promise it's going to be a good

episode. I have such a wonderful guest, Hannah Brown, and we really dive into this week's

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. But again, if any of you guys have advice around hormonal changes

and anxiety and panic attacks, I am all ears at this point.

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