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"My crumbling emotional state prompted me to seek mental health support..."

How Chronic Stress and CPTSD Made My Perimenopause Worse How CPTSD, chronic stress, and people-pleasing fueled my rocky perimenopause—and how I finally found peace.

"I cried every day for about two months."

Menopause at 50: Overcoming Brain Fog, Stress, and a New Career Struggling with menopause brain fog and stress? Read how one woman overcame severe symptoms to launch a business at 50.

"Perhaps this is a time when we edit our lives into a second draft, using decades of lived experience."

The Unexpected Wisdom of Midlife Diagnosed with MS at 26, she rebuilt her life. Now at 51, she navigates menopause as a powerful "second puberty."

"At this point, I genuinely thought I was just getting old and falling apart. Symptom after symptom kept showing up, like a CVS receipt that just kept printing."

The Perimenopause Symptoms No One Warned Me About Perimenopause can bring strange and unexpected symptoms, from frozen shoulder to heart "flutters," inner ear itching to brain fog.

"I may never know whether my ups and downs are just another side-effect of endometriosis, or due to an early perimenopause."

Is It Perimenopause Or Just My Endometriosis? | Menopause-Community.net Learn about the overlapping symptoms of endometriosis and perimenopause such as irregular periods and hot flashes, and how to manage them.

"...When menopause arrived, I found myself in uncharted territory."

Menopause & Chronic Illness: Managing Overlapping Symptoms | Menopause-Community.net Can menopause make chronic illness worse? Learn how hormonal changes impact your life and discover strategies for finding relief.

"One minute, we're discussing grandchildren, vacations, or what happened on our favorite television show. The next minute, my client is fanning herself with a magazine, pulling at her shirt collar, and announcing, 'I am burning up!'"

Hot Flashes in the Salon Chair A hair dresser shares her stories of women getting hot flashes in her salon chair and how she helped them cool off.

"...Something kept pulling me toward a different path."

Why I Chose to Come Off HRT During Menopause One woman shares her honest journey of starting HRT for menopause relief, why she left it, and how she found healing.

"...My doctor offered no troubling diagnosis. All they did was reassure me it was nothing to worry about. "

Is It Perimenopause Or Just My Endometriosis? | Menopause-Community.net Learn about the overlapping symptoms of endometriosis and perimenopause such as irregular periods and hot flashes, and how to manage them.

"For much of my life, I believed I needed to get it together, that I was lazy or broken."

My Late ADHD Diagnosis at 39 and the Perimenopause Link Diagnosed with ADHD at 39, I realized perimenopause made my symptoms worse. Read more about how you aren't lazy and you aren't alone.