In Season 1 Episode 6 the 2 Mental Chix discuss how hormones change your whole body, and your body changes your mind.

These days doctors throw hormones around like candy as they try to practice mental health care. Hormones can cause many mood changes.

Doctors don’t communicate well with each other about our care and they rarely talk to us as patients. Not all doctors but many. Most doctors don’t even read your file or know your current medications as they prescribe even more drugs.

Stress during childhood can cause mental health issues over time. Nutrition and exercise can help hormone regulation and lead to a more normal life, whatever that is!

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There is a rich history of mental illness. It started with a wandering womb. The Greek word for uterus is hysteria which described emotionally charged behavior originally thought to happen only in women. During the Victorian era hysteria was a common diagnosis and Dr. Kellogg and a bunch of members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church ran the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Michigan in the late 1800’s. Dr. Kellogg was famous for flaked cereal and masturbation as cures for hysteria. At least they left you with a full tummy and a happy disposition. Dr. Kellogg also believe in enemas, baths and using vibrators on other muscles. Hysteria was finally removed from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Illnesses until 1980.

Join us as we discuss these and other interesting topics regarding the early days of mental illness and the changes in how mental health is handled.

This week Kay & Jay discuss what happens when you relapse. Jay had a rough week and fell back into old habits, so we talk through what brought her to this point and how she pulled herself back out of the bottle.

Though she fell off the wagon, she jumped back on quickly and realized that sobriety is a journey, and it is easy to let yourself down but it’s also possible to quickly recognize and stop bad habits to resume the journey.

Come with us as we discuss dealing with failure on the road to sobriety.