{"id":337373,"date":"2025-12-09T15:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T15:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/337373\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T15:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T15:06:11","slug":"suicide-deaths-show-menopause-can-trigger-midlife-mental-health-crisis-neuropsychiatrist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/337373\/","title":{"rendered":"Suicide deaths show menopause can trigger midlife mental health crisis: neuropsychiatrist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Menopausal transition can aggravate risk factors for suicide, while menopausal hormone therapy is unlikely to be a standalone trigger, a neuropsychiatrist and researcher says.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Julia Lappin said her research showed that women were actively seeking help, rather than MHT being a causal factor in their deaths.<\/p>\n<p>She said the perimenopause and menopause years represented a period of heightened vulnerability where numerous risk factors for suicide converged.<\/p>\n<p>Her research has investigated 63 suicide deaths of women who were on menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) when they died, using coronial data from 2000 to 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\u00d7<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tSign in\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"d-none message adg-password-reset\">\n\t\t\t\tIf this is your first visit to the new AusDoc website, reset your password<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"adg-reset_password_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ausdoc.com.au\/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here.<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Menopausal transition can aggravate risk factors for suicide, while menopausal hormone therapy is unlikely to be a standalone&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[64,63,131391,4830,27392,11910,137,15434,514,187814,44,27393,161983,4793],"class_list":["post-337373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-benzodiazepines","tag-depression","tag-endocrinology","tag-general-practice","tag-health","tag-menopause","tag-mental-health","tag-mht-hrt","tag-news","tag-psychiatry","tag-psychiatry-psychology","tag-womens-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}