Wow!! We shared much of the same experiences in our past. Adolescence was sheer hell. I was fine until puberty - my mother didn't talk about 'anything' of a delicate nature, so I was essentially left on my own; that, and to talk to the family doctor who was a freak, I was convinced.
By the time menopause hit I was already figuring out how to get through it, I researched and found a nurse practitioner who prescribed and experimented with my research, we got through it together.
I talk about hormones and neurotransmitters all the time, people think I'm nuts. But all the hell I went through during the changes of life most people breeze through (or so it seems, that, or they never let on how miserable it really is) I'm acutely aware of even the slightest of changes and pivot accordingly.
Information back then would have made me a different person, of this I'm certain. Luckily the ending is the same, and I kept my sunny disposition in spite it.
Wow!! We shared much of the same experiences in our past. Adolescence was sheer hell. I was fine until puberty - my mother didn't talk about 'anything' of a delicate nature, so I was essentially left on my own; that, and to talk to the family doctor who was a freak, I was convinced.
By the time menopause hit I was already figuring out how to get through it, I researched and found a nurse practitioner who prescribed and experimented with my research, we got through it together.
I talk about hormones and neurotransmitters all the time, people think I'm nuts. But all the hell I went through during the changes of life most people breeze through (or so it seems, that, or they never let on how miserable it really is) I'm acutely aware of even the slightest of changes and pivot accordingly.
Information back then would have made me a different person, of this I'm certain. Luckily the ending is the same, and I kept my sunny disposition in spite it.
Great article. 😊