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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just started episode two and I won’t give any spoilers but one minor thing is that they show Amanda Peetes character whose betraying a 50-year-old woman starting to research perimenopause symptoms and starting to realize she’s in perimenopause.

I’m sorry, but I just feel like that’s really unrealistic and Amanda should’ve said something to the writers. I am 50 and what woman is just now googling perimenopause symptoms for the first time? I don’t even have bad symptoms. I don’t even think I’ve had ever had a hot sweat. But me and my friends have been talking about it for the last few years and my Instagram reels for the last few years has been filled with information. I realize the medical community and doctors don’t really bring it up but anyone with an iPhone in the year 2026 who is over 40 or at least mid 40s has been hearing about and thinking about this for a few years. [/quote]

This reminded me of when Brooke Shields talked about feeling no one was discussing post partum depression in the late 90's/early 2000s. It's simply not true....it was on the radar for years before that. I remember buying my sister a popular book about it called " This isn't what I expected" after my niece was born in '94 and i heard an interview with the writer on the radio. . It can seem like celebrities are living in their own alternate medical world or something are quite ignorant but this one surprised me because Brooke Shields was/is an educated person. They end up sounding so out of touch when they say things like this. Oprah has said about therapy in the 80's " no one was going to therapy and talking about it in the 80's." I was and knew several people doing the same, it sounds so ridiculous. College counseling centers have been a thing for decades, psychologists have had busy practices for many decades, it's so odd. Just speak for yourself..." I did not know about....." rather than "No one was talking about it". Minor shift but an important one. [/quote]

I think Brooke just met it was less accepted to talk about in public. But you’re right there was probably a fair amount of information back then.

I don’t know if you remember, but Tom Cruise basically went on I think the today show and told Brooke she shouldn’t be taking medications and that postpartum depression wasn’t a thing.

He later apologized, but it was another sign of the tme…a smug, white man, mansplaining postpartum depression to a woman. [/quote]

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