Women whose sexual desire diminishes during menopause are more likely to report disturbed sleep, depression symptoms, and night sweats, according to Group Health research in the June American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
To the best of the research team’s knowledge, this marks the first time that sleep disturbance has been independently associated with diminished sexual desire during or after menopause. With age, sexual desire may be diminished for both women and men, said Dr. Reed, whose clinical practice is at the Women’s Clinic at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
But gender differences may complicate matters. “For women, greater intimacy tends to open the door to more sexual desire,” she said. “That’s not always true for men.” However, changes that happen with menopause can disturb women’s sense of well-being . But experts recommend a variety of steps that women can take on their own to feel better through the transition.
Here are some of them:
Depression:
- Support ongoing regular physical exercise whatever works for you (be it yoga or karate)
to promote fitness, balance, social networking, and an energetic approach to life.
- Eat small, balanced meals, including snacks, at regular intervals. Avoid getting too hungry or overeating, because a full stomach can make you feel glum.
- Try new activities.
- Spend some time every day outside in the daylight.
Low libido:
- Address the changes that menopause and age–including changes in male sexual response–can bring to relationships.
- Be aware that both women and men may need more time for arousal.
- Try learning to massage each other.
- Talk to your doctor about solutions for vaginal dryness, e.g., lubricants and topical estrogen.
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Psychological depression appears to contribute to worse medical outcomes for patients with heart failure, ranking it in importance with such risk factors as high cholesterol, hypertension, and even the ability of the heart to pump blood throughout the body.
After taking into account such factors as disease severity, the strength of the heart muscle contractions, the underlying cause for the heart failure, age and medication use, a team of Duke University Medical Center and University of North Carolina researchers found that symptoms of depression were common in this population.
More to it, they´ve also found that depressed patients were over 50 percent more likely to die or be hospitalized for their heart condition than patients who were not depressed.
Researchers still don’t understand why depressed heart patients have worse outcomes. Among possible factors, depressed patients are known to have overly active immune systems, a decrease in the ability of their blood platelets to clot properly and a decrease in their heart’s ability to react appropriately to the stresses of everyday life.
In an attempt to better understand the role of depression ,
read more here.
For many people boredom is a trivial feeling of not a big value. But it has darker side: Easily bored people are at higher risk for depression, anxiety, drug addiction, alcoholism, compulsive gambling, eating disorders, hostility, anger, poor social skills, bad grades and low work performance.
Part of the boredom puzzle may be individual differences in how much excitement and novelty we require. Men, for example, are generally more bored than women. They also exhibit more risk-taking behaviors, report enjoying more dangerous entertainment and are more likely to say that their environments are dull.
Highly bored individuals also tend to lack the ability to entertain themselves. As a result, they may turn to activities like doing drugs, says McWelling Todman at the New School for Social Research in New York City.
It is possible that the roots of boredom lie in a fundamental breakdown in our understanding of what it is we want to do. Bored people tend to score low on measures of self-awareness. So what to do with it? Read this.
Women whose sexual desire diminishes during menopause are more likely to report disturbed sleep, depression symptoms, and night sweats, according to Group Health research in the June American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
