Dr. Tabatha Barber describes a severe emotional breakdown triggered by plummeting estrogen levels. Low estrogen can cause intense mood disturbance that doctors often misdiagnose as depression and treat with antidepressants, when the real problem is hormonal.
I had a meltdown. I was crying. I did not want to continue my job, my career, any of this stuff that I was doing that was really scary. So I want to share this with you because it's so important for you to realize how important hormones are to our health. And I was having an episode of my estrogen just tanking to the ground. No estrogen. So we always tell women low estrogen is just hot flashes and night sweats and a little bit of mood swings. But I'm here to tell you it can be severe mood swings to the point where any doctor would hand you an antidepressant prescription, and that is not what you need.
