r/science • u/CookMotor • Nov 02 '24

Neuroscience In a First, Scientists Found Structural, Brain-Wide Changes During Menstruation

https://www.sciencealert.com/in-a-first-scientists-found-structural-brain-wide-changes-during-menstruation
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u/popcorntrio Nov 02 '24

I hope this triggers more research and insight into treatments for PMDD, it’s completely debilitating and has only recently become more widely diagnosed, some treatment options would be life changing for a large proportion of women

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u/determinedpopoto Nov 02 '24

It would be legitimately a life saver for me. I have PMDD that makes me intensely suicidal on top of OCD and PTSD. It's like my brain is just built to want to die. So far the only option doctors will entertain is nonstop birth control to skip periods. It would be life changing to have some sort of medicine or therapy for it other than BC.

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u/huxandkisses Nov 03 '24

Please don't listen to the person who told you to go to a naturopath. They are not doctors and are only interested in getting as much money out of you as they can.

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u/prarie33 Nov 03 '24

And your physician is in it for charity?

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u/Waywoah Nov 03 '24

Physicians have over a decade of actual training in actual medicine

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u/prarie33 Nov 03 '24

Ah, so physicians have a lot more debt and are about money also. Got it.

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u/Waywoah Nov 03 '24

When a doctor can’t cure you they send you on to a specialist; when a naturopath can’t cure you, they lie and say that you need more sessions with them

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u/prarie33 Nov 03 '24

Your original comment was naturopaths are just trying to take your money. We've now established that physicians are doing that as well

I was not replying to the different levels of trading, professionalism, quality of care or any other level you wish to bring up on why one may be better than the other.

But we agree - they are both in it for the money.

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u/Waywoah Nov 03 '24

No, we don't agree.
There is a fine, but important difference between being paid for your work and being in it for the money. Legitimate doctors are the former, naturopaths are the latter.
Yes, doctors do make their wages from seeing patients (though it isn't usually the direct correlation you seem to believe it to be), but no decent Doc is going to keep you coming back when there is nothing more they can do, they will instead refer you to someone that hopefully has more answers (aka, a specialist).
That's the difference between a real medicinal practitioner and a pseudoscientific quack, whether they be a naturopath, chiropractor, or any other flavor of snake oil salesperson.

That's not to say no doctor has ever taken advantage of the system- ever field has jerks who seek to profit unfairly, but I'm talking about your average GP who just does their job to the best of their ability.