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Article: The second midlife crisis--male and female menopause.(Update)
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- CME: Your SA Journal of CPD
- Article date:
- February 1, 2007
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'Who and how will I be when I have lost my sex hormones?' is a question all women and most men are forced to ask themselves with the dawn of menopause or andropause in their 50s.
Research studies have been done on women in menopause for decades. The most notable changes are the very different ways the current generation is handling menopause, and I will mention some of these later. With greater psychological savvy and an emphasis on self-actualisation, women of today often see this time as a challenging stage to be conquered, rather than what their mothers felt was the loss of their womanhood.
Even though the first studies on andropause were reported in ...