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Menopause
Menopause is for every woman a decisive event which marks the transition from one phase of life, that reproductive another, equally important, but no more reproduction.
The disturbances carried food can appear very often in this period as a response to the psychological hardship that follows the real loss of this function, characterized by the production of a series of psychological symptoms associated with implicit and symbolic meanings of this event.
The feeling that they reached a definitive step in the journey of their lives creates a void difficult , accompanied by an awareness of the end of his female social function: reproduction of the species.
In our society, as we all know, the production capacity appears to be the parameter on which measure the value of each individual, then more for women this loss causes feelings of uselessness and decline feeling threatened by fear of losing even its ability attractions aesthetic, youth and sexual functions.
Abandonment also house by the children become self and the feeling of loss of desire and sexual desirability contribute to hear the woman suddenly poorer by its role as mother, wife, lover and generator, as if his time had ended in many ways: emotional, emotional, sexual and social.
The appearance of depressive symptoms and anxiety, which sometimes result in real syndromes depressive, sudden changes of mood, nervous tension, ease the crying, sleep disturbances (insomnia), the concentration difficulties due the appearance of physiological changes, mainly in hormone levels, such as reduced production of serotonin (a substance in the brain that helps to maintain a high tone of humor), which is observed in this period and increase weight not dependent, I all elements that characterize this complex psychological state that is facing alone a woman in menopause.
The refuge in food is the only remedy sometimes available to cope with feelings of inadequacy, diversity, of emptiness, anxiety and deep loneliness.
The help of a specialist can only help a woman in distress in the prevention and cure of these depressions with menopausal support activities and reworking of these themes trying to direct the attention of women especially in the promotion of a new awareness on women and a rewording of the meaning of being a woman is no longer in the body but new interests, spaces, suffering and functions.
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