With the increase in turmoil and anxiety in the world as a result of domestic isolation, or the imposed social separation measures for fear of infection with the Covid 19 virus, some mental health concerns are growing and a steady increase in anxiety and stress rates among many of the world's population, and women have been affected directly.
According to opinion polls conducted in Britain, women suffer from disorders with the date of the menstrual cycle, which made highlighting this disorder important because of its impact on women's mental and reproductive health.
The British Independent newspaper published a survey of 5,677 women to ask whether they have experienced problems or disorders in the menstrual cycle since the start of the pandemic, and 65% of women answered that they experienced appointment disorders, increased pain, increased bleeding rates, or even hormonal disorders and severe mood swings.
Women indicated that many of them have not witnessed this disorder since puberty, and that they have very regular menstrual periods, and many of them participated in solidarity tweets about their vulnerability to home stone, delay in the menstrual cycle and various new symptoms such as headache and nausea, in conversations that inspire solidarity and fear.
Women were also affected economically and socially, as the pandemic caused exceptional circumstances, not only for fear of infection, but sometimes they were in control of an expected loss of work or if the work was actually lost.
Is #lockdown screwing with our menstrual cycles? Interested to know if anyone is noticing anything different, as we hit the four week mark
- Victoria Richards (@nakedvix) April 13, 2020
Ladies: Anypne else finding their menstrual cycle is even worse during this corona lockdown?
- Georgina. (@TheCoeliacSloth) April 13, 2020
Pandemic and psychological pressure
The pandemic resulted in many psychological pressures and tensions that negatively affected women, thus creating a general atmosphere of tension that led to an imbalance in their hormonal balance, and then the menstrual cycle.
A 2017 study at the University of Cambridge revealed that there is a direct link between psychological stress and female hormones, and that more than 36% of female students in Cambridge have had a menstrual period during the testing period, which is common for women, if they are associated with a state of stress.
Although the researchers note that this may be linked to dietary problems or a rise in cortisol levels, all this does not negate that the pressures interfere with the production of the hormone estrogen and progesterone, and lead directly to a menstrual disorder, either at the time or bleeding rates, so anxiety about infection is not Only the main reason is that there are great economic concerns for women.
Menstruation poverty
Many women and girls have suffered from severe financial crises since the start of the pandemic, and last March, Plan International UK (a non-profit organization) conducted new research revealing "Period Poverty" represented by the inability of women and girls to buy Sanitary pads necessary for that period.
Three out of every ten girls suffer from economic problems that prevent access to sanitary pads, and if that suffering is observed in the United Kingdom, then the situation in the rest of the third world will be worse, the suffering experienced by women and women may negatively affect their public and psychological health. .