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So There, Sigmund Freud!

How did we get to where we are today when it comes to our attitudes about menopause?

How did we get to where we are today when it comes to our attitudes about menopause?

By the time you actually get there, you’ve heard horror stories, jokes, and unsettling statistics. Since this is the information age, I started wondering what was happening to women in menopause when it wasn’t such an enlightened time.

Way back when, menopause used to be a very mysterious occurrence because most women didn’t live long enough to get there! Around 275 B.C., over two-hundred years before the Roman Empire, the typical woman lived to be only 26 years old. Those who lived long enough to experience menopause were considered very old by that society’s standards. It just wasn’t common. You outlived your peers and your sisters and no one could explain what was happening to you. Thus you can begin to see where the jokes about menopause and old age started.

Of course, it didn’t help that Hippocrates started out founding his theories about menopause, either. A Greek physician born in 460 BC on the island of Cos, he became known as the founder of medicine and was regarded as the greatest physician of all his time. He thought women’s menstrual flow existed to purge a woman’s body of accumulated poisons. Do the math. If you are no longer having periods, the poisons must be building up in your body and that’s why you are having the miseries associated with menopause. So, let’s fix you with such remedies as eating other animals’ ovaries and bleeding with leeches. (Yikes!)

Fast forward to Sigmund Freud. He saw menopausal women as “quarrelsome and obstinate, petty, stingy and sadistic.” In this era women were even institutionalized for menopause. Thankfully today we would have a few choice words for all the theories of what was happening to us when we enter menopause.

That’s a very brief history of what menopause used to mean to women. Today, we have a non-hormonal, clinically studied, natural safe way to deal with perimenopause and menopause: Remifemin and Remifemin Good Night!^† We’ve come a long way baby…so there, Sigmund Freud!

Michele is a real person experiencing menopause just like you. Feel free to email her at michele@remifemin.com if you have a question, a story to share…or you just need to vent to someone who understands! Follow her comments on Twitter under Remifemin.

Published October 15, 2009

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