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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How is it that these people are able with severe mental ill Ed’s are able to hold it together until well after launching a career, marriage, kids, etc. Isn’t the onset of most mental illness in young adulthood? Or perhaps after so many years masked and untreated, it explodes in the 30s-40s?[/quote]

Mental illness of XW occurred when she was 45. Not uncommon as a result of perimenopause.[/quote]

Severe mental illness is not a common symptom of menopause.[/quote]

Depression is very common in perimenopause, poster, and severe depression leading to other mental illness is not uncommon. Why? Not because women are weak, just because we are human.

One of the primary symptoms of perimenopause/post menopause is chronic insomnia, and a brain that does not sleep is a brain as high risk for mental health disorder, period. Elevated levels of stress hormones let loose by stress and chronic insomnia drive erratic emotions. Same thing happens to men under the same conditions, nothing for women to be ashamed about.

The truth is peri/postmenopause is not talked about much except among women and usually then in support groups and over kitchen table coffee dates and not in the freaking medical profession where menopause doctors are very rare and the vast majority of women never get to see one and are urged by clueless primary care doctors and standard gyns to ‘tough it out’ nevermind the devastating effects on family, career, self, long term health.

We need to demand better care for women through the change of life, and responsible conversation that acknowledges the serious health issues faced by many women in the transition - minus all the misogyny. It is long past time![/quote]

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