Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi

And to answer your question, because anxiety is on the rise, because depression is on the rise, postpartum depression is very common.

It is very difficult, honestly, to navigate the different stages of life being a woman.

Imagine when you're young, some of them with endometriosis and PCOS, they have all that struggle.

Then

They try to get pregnant.

They don't get pregnant.

They need to sell everything they have to pay for an IVF to have a baby.

Then they have a baby.

Their body changes.

There is this giant drop in estrogen that puts them into this.

you know, postpartum blues and then postpartum depression.

And that goes dismissed by family members, by everyone.

Oh, you're not sleeping well, probably.

Oh, it's normal.

It's because you haven't had a child.

No, these patients, even with PMDD, they completely dissociate themselves from their environment, from their child.

It's really heartbreaking.

And then once they're done with all this,

In their early 40s, perimenopause comes, late 30s, early 40s, right?

Wave after wave.