Claudia Raia59, is a mother of three children and recalled when she had panic attacks in the final stretch of her last pregnancy, with her son Lucanow three years old. The actress said that, in the last three months of her pregnancy, she was unable to sleep and, when she sought out a psychiatrist to understand her insomnia, she received a revealing diagnosis.
“I started to panic every time it got dark. Then, when night came, my arms felt like I had restless legs syndrome. It lasted all night and I couldn’t sleep. My psychiatrist told me that I ‘didn’t have panic’, but ‘I was panicking’. (…) I did,” he said during an interview with “Sem Censura”, on TV Brasil.
When the youngest was born, as a result of marriage to Jarbas Homem de MelloClaudia commented that she was worried if she would have the same menopause symptoms again, but the doctor informed her that there were no reports or history about this.
I stopped and immediately menopause returned, all over again. My husband tells me he went through menopause three times with the same woman. Menopause returned and the panic returned too. Now I’m medicated,” he said.
The presenter Cissa Guimarães68, recalled that he went through the same phase of menopause at the time of , in 2010, when he was hit by a car in Rio de Janeiro. She said that she was very afraid of going through this phase and that she realized that something was different when her menstruation started to become very irregular.
“I went to the doctor, who ordered tests and identified that they were. That’s why I took hormone replacement therapy. She told me ‘you have a 99.99% chance of going into depression and having panic syndrome’ because I was also in mourning,” he said.