“Beyond Mood Swings: Unravelling the Impact of Hormonal Fluctuations This Winter”
The polymath winter toolkit: how to handle the Impact of Hormonal Fluctuations This Winter”
Winter, with its fresh air and peaceful landscapes, can provide a distinct set of mental health challenges. Many people endure mood swings, despair, and anxiety when the days grow shorter and the temperature drops. Surprisingly, our body’s complex hormonal dance plays a large role in this seasonal shift, and blood testing emerges as an important ally in understanding and regulating these fluctuations.
The complex interplay of hormones and mental health is an enthralling aspect of human physiology. Hormones, the chemical messengers that regulate various bodily functions, have a significant impact on mood, emotions, and overall mental well-being. Winter, with its reduced exposure to sunlight, can upset the delicate hormonal balance. Hormonal fluctuations in women are not only influenced by seasonal changes but can also be intricately linked to various life stages, such as menopause. Winter may aggravate symptoms such as mood swings, irritability, and anxiety in women undergoing hormonal changes. Hormone testing combined with blood analysis emerges as a valuable tool for understanding and managing mental health in this context.
Using information from blood and hormone testing, customised interventions can be used to treat particular hormonal imbalances and the effects they have on mental health. These interventions go beyond traditional medical care and include dietary modifications, lifestyle alterations, and customised therapies. This is where polymaths shine.
Polymaths can exhibit a diverse range of responses to changes in their environment. As adaptive as they can be in the way they view the world frequent changes in their mood can leave them with heightened sensitivity, diverting them from their passions, pursuits and even dulling their polymathic tendencies.
Polymaths may respond to mood swings in the following ways:
1. Display their adaptive resilience due to their ability to draw from their varied skillsets and interest in learning and adapting there focus based on energy levels.
2. Engaging fully with their passions to immerse themselves in something they love to feel productive and fulfilled.
3. Diverted expressionism whereby the polymath diverts their energy into an outlet which is more creative than their existing one. This serves to provide emotional release.
4. Creating order, polymaths may reflect on their multitude of interests and reevaluate their priorities in response to their mood in order to allow effective allocation of emotional resources.
5. Polymaths may seek further interests to add variety and stimulation. Mood swings can heighten the sense of monotony and adding or changing interests can satisfy a polymaths need to continuously learn.
Polymaths are usually self aware and able to introspect, this contributes to their abilities to view problems from multiple angles. This self awareness and ability to self reflect can allow them to identify triggers and patterns, such as cold weather, feeling run down and put place in systems to counteract these feelings such as being more proactive with their healthcare. There is nothing worse for a polymath than being stopped in their tracks because of their mood.
Polymaths have an innate ability to bring people together, they are often at the heart of collaborative opportunities and work with people who compliment their interests. The sense of community and collaboration can not only enhance problem solving abilities but also help with mood swings and adaptation to environmental changes.
Ultimately, a polymaths’ responses to mood changes are multifaceted and impacted by their unique blend of interests, abilities, and coping mechanisms. Polymaths’ adaptive resilience, immersive engagement, creative expression, and self-awareness contribute to a dynamic and individualised approach to emotional well-being management. Seeking help from friends, family, or health experts, as with any individual, can be critical in navigating the difficulties connected with mood swings.
Observations such as blood tests can add to a more thorough comprehension of a person’s wellbeing, particularly when considering the difficulties brought on by the winter. Once these are identified individuals including polymaths can take the first steps towards individualised interventions that address the particular difficulties of changes in season.
https://www.bioma.me/bioma-health/hormone-health/the-menopause-causes-symptoms-and-how-to-manage-it
I wonder if polymaths feel mood swings and changes more than others, do they find they have to adapt more in the cold weather than the warm? If so, do polymaths perform better in either? Are they healthier? Are they happier?
References:
• Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1996). Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention. HarperCollins.
• Grant, A. (2016). Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World. Viking.
• Tugend, A. (2011). Better by Mistake: The Unexpected Benefits of Being Wrong. Riverhead Books.
