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[quote=Anonymous]I think the stress of life is making everyone's mental health worse, so whatever your baseline is, it's worse.

So someone who is usually doing well might be experiencing anxiety it depression for the first time, and have no idea how to deal with it.

So someone prone to eating disorders might be relapsing. This deserves empathy.

Someone prone to depression may be having an episode and solutions that worked previously might not be working as well now.

Someone with a personality disorder or psychosis might have a psychotic break that, for instance, leads them to attempt to assassinate a public figure.

I also think many/most people have money anxiety that is compounding these problems by both increasing stress and making them feel they can't afford to seek health. Also I think existing stigmas around having mental illness have worsened recently, this is purely anecdotal but I feel like a few years ago someone saying they struggled with depression would be met with empathy and now less so. There seems to be less empathy everywhere.

This is not unique to women and not caused by menopause. But menopause has real impacts on how women feel and even in brain chemistry, and women have historically been gaslit about these changes. Being made to feel like you are crazy for going through a normal hormonal shift might increase existing paranoia or hypochondriac tendencies.

Be kind. A lot of people are just getting by these days.[/quote]

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