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Erica Hidvegi · 07-28-2008, 10:44 PM

[quote=KatCarney;1887057337]Stanford Report, June 11, 2003
Depression, PCOS linked in study

Women who have a hormonal disorder called polycystic ovarian syndrome, or PCOS, are more likely to have depression than women without the disorder, said a study by medical center psychiatrist Natalie Rasgon, MD, PhD.

The study also shows women with PCOS are depressed not only because of the symptoms, which include infertility, but also because of the disease’s underlying biology. She said the findings have prompted her to further explore whether treating depression could help reproductive problems in PCOS patients.

The research, published in the May issue of the Journal of Affective Disorders, is the first study of the link between the syndrome and depression.

PCOS is the most common hormonal disorder in women of reproductive age, affecting up to 10 percent of premenopausal women. Women with PCOS secrete excess male hormones and don’t ovulate; they may have extra body hair, acne, obesity or baldness.

"The simple, logical explanation is that if a woman is overweight and balding, she would be depressed because of that," said Rasgon, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, but her research points to physiological links as well.

Rasgon and her colleagues are currently conducting ongoing research into the link between PCOS and depression on a larger group of women.

Specifically to Kat Carney . . . I am trying to assist when I say 'embrace your depression', even though it seems so horribly vicious, disgruntling, annoying, and crippling BUT by perhaps disengaging from the 'label of depressed' re-categorize yourself and say, 'just a minor setback in the process of living in the human condition'.

When we are so hurried in our lives, so strict in adhering to what was in our family tree, what will be directly affecting us, the fear that we too are doomed . . . it becomes essential for self-healing to take affect by concentrating on depression as a release from the madness, the chaos, the necessary slow-down . . .

I had a cyst, now it is very small and tolerable and since turning 42 on Friday, not too concerned about not becoming part of the 'procreation circus'. No offense to those ladies that want to conceive. But in my plight of doctors, treatments, misdiagnosis, prescription BCP's, and intolerance from the conventional medical system in general, I healed myself.

The sooner those of us who get depressed and stay depressed for more than a week, realize this is not a permanent 'state-of-being' then healing begins and during that process, you awaken from a deep sleep. You are refreshed and able to challenge that which your kind doctor prescribes for you as 'best' . . .

This is for everyone with one cyst or several: If you are overweight and not happy with it, try seeing what your bloodtype is and eat those foods that metaboilize well in your system instead of sticking around and getting you heavier.

Same for this: If you are underweight and affected by a cyst or several or even fibroids (those are also caused an over-production of testosterone but the Progesterone levels are dangerously high also and fibroids react differently to synthetic bc.