PCOS & Mental Health Treatment

When hormone and metabolic changes affect mood, anxiety, and emotional regulation.

Women living with Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) often notice their mental health is just as challenging as the physical symptoms. Fluctuating hormones, insulin resistance, inflammation, sleep disruption, and fertility stress can all influence depression, anxiety, and irritability.

If therapy alone hasn’t fully helped, there may be more to the picture.

At Scottsdale Counseling & Wellness, we specialize in understanding how reproductive and endocrine conditions interact with emotional wellbeing.

Common Emotional Symptoms with PCOS

Women frequently report:

• depression or low motivation

• anxiety or panic

• mood swings

• body image distress

• fatigue and brain fog

• frustration after trying multiple treatments

• feeling dismissed or not taken seriously

Many patients describe enormous relief when someone finally acknowledges the biological component.

Our Approach

We provide care that looks at both emotional and physiological contributors.

Treatment may include:

✔ therapy
✔ psychiatric evaluation
✔ medication support when appropriate
✔ collaboration with medical providers
✔ strategies to regulate stress and sleep

For women whose symptoms significantly disrupt functioning, our Women’s Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) can offer more rapid stabilization.

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If this is you, you are not alone — and specialized help exists.