Reply to “Old age anxiety”, just need to vent!

Forum Index » Perimenopause, Menopause, and Beyond

Reply to "“Old age anxiety”, just need to vent! "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]Not sure if this is the right forum but I think my issue has to do with aging and maybe perimenopause.
I am 49, and noticing that I have more and more of what I call old age anxiety because I see a lot of it in older people around me. I am fine day to day, but anything out of the ordinary (a longer plane trip, car battery died, things like that) just make me very anxious and cause general imbalance! I can even throw up before the trip, especially if it’s an early morning flight (I’ve started to avoid those).

However what concerns me the most is car trouble and how I react to it. Even 5 years ago when I changed my car battery it was a drag but nothing more. Now it’s an ordeal, when I discovered it was dead at night it really made me upset (my fault for not changing it earlier, the signs were there, but again I had anxiety around it and kept putting it off). I was up early morning arranging to jumpstart the car and take it to the store. I am now very tired and somehow upset with all the interactions that took place in and around the battery store (again nothing major just my anxiety and hyper vigilance mostly).

For the first time in many years I feel like maybe I need a man. No, not for sex or companionship; just for taking care of my car, my furniture and what not. Sadly I am only half kidding.

It just makes me so sad to be like this. Even 5 years ago it was so much easier. It’s ridiculous to be anxious about normal house and car stuff, but my next anxiety point is that I need to go buy and assemble a dresser. Maybe I need someone for household projects but I don’t know where to look for people like this. Ugh! [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics