Stories later this hour, but first we want to bring you a special report. Women in iran have told the bbc how their online activity has been spied on by the authorities, leading to arrests, threats and beatings. Their testimonies come two years after the woman, life, Freedom Protests ignited by the death of Mahsa Amini in Police Custody after she was arrested for wearing the mandatory hijab loosely. Bbc verify Reporter Reha Kansara reports. A warning, this report includes distressing accounts of violence. Chanting i took off my hijab and didnt even wear it as a shawl around my neck. I didnt care to hide who i am or where the photo was taken. I wanted to say we exist. Chanting in 2022, anti government protests swept over iran after the death of a young woman in custody. The Protesters Battle Cry women, life, freedom resounded across the world. But two years on, Irans Government continues to clamp down evolving surveillance for a new era of digital resistance. Arresting thousands of prot
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the ovaries isn t working and they might have planned to have children, so it scuppers up the life choices so the psychological, the mental wellbeing is really severely impacted. so i lost my self esteem, confidence through the floor, i didn t know what was happening to my body, my mind, brainfog, rage, depression, anxiety, to the point where i didn t want to be here any more. brain fog, which made me feel like i was losing my mind and suffering from some sort of early dementia, and low mood and anxiety that robbed me of my personality and my ability to feeland be me. i started to drink every night. i started to go out every other night. in a way, i abused my body, but not only with alcohol, with sex as well. i didn t want to be in a relationship. at 25, it felt like everybody
of confidence, loss of self esteem, brain fog can occur, sleeplessness, - so insomnia is a really classical symptom. i i was having to diagnose myself, you know what i mean? looking through symptoms and like, diagnosing myself. ok, so this is menopause. and, 0k, what can i get to help with my menopause? but this is things that should be done by medical professionals. this is something that a doctor should be offering to me. i shouldn t be having to google this myself and then asking the doctor to give me the specific medication i need. so that felt wrong. i had 13 years of no hormones, which has affected my health since. seven years ago, at the age of 32, i was put into premature menopause as the result of a radical hysterectomy for treatment for ovarian cancer. for me it was a huge sense of loss and when you are so young i did not fit into the stereotypes i don t think there was as much support as there perhaps could have been. i m also on hrt patches,