Podcast: Women are NOT Just Smaller Men: How Our Hormones Affect Our Mental Health

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foreign preventative health podcast hosted by the Jewish Orthodox Women's Medical Association we provide you with up-to-date information on health topics geared towards the Orthodox Jewish Community this podcast content is provided for informational purposes only and is not intended as medical advice or as a substitute for the medical advice of a physician to hear from you I will also add I mentioned during the podcast that this is a very Broad and deep topic and this is primarily an introduction to it and I plan to do more interviews related to it to really flesh it out Dr Esther Rojas is a board-certified child Adolescent and adult psychiatrist a graduate of stern college for women Esther received her medical degree from the icann school of medicine and completed adult psychiatry residency and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry fellowship at Montefiore Medical Center she is an Adjunct professor at Stern college for women of Yeshiva University in the psychology and biology departments she also consults on reproductive and women's mental health issues to achieve Behavioral Health in Muncie New York Dr Rojas owns a private practicing children adolescents and adults in person in Riverdale New York and Via Telehealth in New York and New Jersey welcome Dr Rojas thank you so much for joining me today I am so so excited to be here thank you for having me oh my gosh thank you for coming on with me I

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1. 0:00foreign preventative health podcast hosted by the Jewish Orthodox Women's Medical Association we provide you with…
2. 4:15psychoactive which means that they actually have effects on the neurons the brain cells themselves and…
3. 8:02schizophrenia right so we're talking about mood and anxiety but sometimes there are people who are…
4. 12:17sometimes ocps aren't necessarily the answer because you're getting um negative mood effects we you know…
5. 16:06related issues also puts you at risk and there's there's really interesting uh data about trauma…
6. 20:20going to Perry through perimenopause about the influence of hormones and specifically on her very very…
7. 24:03right so we're talking here about medications but throughout the lifespan Psychotherapy is incredibly incredibly important…
8. 27:43risk and again you're ignoring a very important Avenue for treatment and when we're thinking about…
9. 31:58later but at least they're really efforts to pick up on some people who are struggling…
10. 35:47pregnancy and then issues on others parts of the lifespan in terms of the monthly cycles…

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