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...something spooky about continuing to have monthly bleeding at age 60, a fairly common consequence of some types of hormone therapy. "Why fight vainly to remain in a stage of life you can't be in anymore, instead of enjoying the stage you are in?" asks Dr. Nada Stotland, 51, an HRT dropout. Stotland, a psychiatrist at the University of Chicago, says she is "extra skeptical, because there are powerful forces that aim one toward prescribed hormones, but there is no profit motive in not prescribing something...
...much as chemistry. The decline in estrogen often coincides with many life changes. "Your children grow up and move away. You don't look as gorgeous as you used to, and your husband leaves you for a younger woman. These things may leave you vulnerable to depression," says Dr. Stotland of the University of Chicago. "The more a woman feels valued in her life, the less likely she is to have emotional symptoms at menopause. Working women tend to do better than women who stay home...