What is Reddit's opinion of Moody Bitches: The Truth About the Drugs You're Taking, The Sleep You're Missing, The Sex You're Not Having, and What's Really Making You Crazy?

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Wow, thank you for taking the time to explain all this to me!

>It was interesting having the hormonal ups and downs, but I think overall it was less disruptive than I would have thought it would be.

I asked my original question because I had been thinking about this sort of disruption. I had just today heard of a book called Moody Bitches which makes the argument that women are being over-medicated for depression and the reason for that is due to our cultural ideas around normality, especially as it pertains to emotions and their function/suppression in the workplace environment. Do you have any thoughts on that?

Personally (as a cis-male) I would like to see greater tolerance for emotions in a professional environment. I feel like our society is pushing individuals extremely hard in a never-ending quest for increased productivity... but that is a whole other can of worms. :)

>Except maybe in terms of my dark chocolate consumption, that went up like crazy for a week or so every month.

That's really weird. Do we (scientifically speaking) know why this is? I'd always thought chocolate was merely a comfort food and that it became associated with menstruating women in our culture but I've never heard a reason why that is the case, other than the comfort factor.

>However, even post-orchiectomy I will likely take small amounts of exogenous testosterone, because testosterone is well known to be fundamental to female bone and sexual health. Women have 1/10th the testosterone levels of men naturally.

So post-orchiectomy will you no longer need to take antiandrogen? How might that affect your dosage of estradiol?

>But from my uterus containing friends who have been on Yaz (with the antiandrogen drospirenone), it seems to me to be: not great.

Oh yes. I have read some Yaz-related horror stories right here on this sub in the past!