Could hormones help treat some forms of anxiety and depression?
Mental illnesses that do not respond to standard treatment could be hormone-driven
Their names are unknown but their pain is nonetheless evident. A user on Reddit, a social-media site, was “fairly close to being just another young man that killed himself because of depression”. On the website of Menopause Mandate, a campaign group, a woman tells of her grief “for the lost years where suicide seemed my only option”.
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This article appeared in the Science & technology section of the print edition under the headline “When hormones hijack the mind”
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