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other hand, some of the woman participating in this have said that these challenges of dealing with those two factors have made them grow as a person, open new opportunities and felt freedom. Overall menopause with bipolar disorder ended up having a bad outcome for some of the participants and a positive one for others.
This relates to psychology because bipolar disorder is a mental illness. This mental illness must be treated as well as talked about with someone and most of the time it will be a psychologist. In this case it will be a Cognitive Behavioral Therapist, or it could be a psychiatrist as well. These doctors will prescribe the right medication to the patients and do treatments according to what they are going through and how severe

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