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Menopause is 'at risk of being medicalised'

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Vincent
Published date16 June 2022
Writing in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), researchers said most women actually do not wish to have treatment such as hormone replacement therapy (HRT) unless their symptoms are severe

They argued that the "message that menopause signals decay and decline" is widely reinforced but only serves to make women "expect the worst".

They wrote: "Medicalisation and its narrow focus on symptoms may fuel women's negative expectations of menopause and influence what physical and emotional experiences they attribute to menopause."

The experts, including from the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London, said research suggests that "negative attitudes and expectations before menopause predict the likelihood of distressing menopausal symptoms."

They added: "We argue that medicalisation of menopause risks collapsing the wide range...

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