Kerilyn Zielinski BA, OHSC, CAE & First aid trainer is a dear friend of mine. We bonded over similar careers, personal challenges, and our love of memes.  She shares her story of suffering symptoms of PCOS (without ever receiving an official diagnosis), copious fatigue while raising three small children, furthering her professional career and experiencing grief and trauma through other personal events.

Though if you met her on the street you would never know, she is truly one of the kindest and likable women you could ever meet. This just goes to show we all have a story, be kind because you never know what a person may be going through.

In this episode, I mention that women with PCOS are 7 times more likely to commit suicide. Here is a link to one article and one research paper that shares why that is:

https://integrativemgi.com/pcos-and-depression-too-often-they-go-hand-in-hand/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18672334/  "The clinical implication of this study is that clinicians treating women with PCOS should be aware that these women are a high-risk group for common affective and anxiety disorders as well as suicide attempts."

If you are struggling with the feeling you are not being heard by your medical practitioner, take the NCBI paper to them. Physicians need to be aware of the mental health implications and learn a bedside manner to ease a patient's anxiety and make them feel heard.