Thread by @monaeltahawy

"What I’ve personally not heard mentioned as much, is the crippling anxiety you can get with the peri menopause...A kind of irrational anxiety that makes no sense whatsoever! You feel like you’ve lost your own damn mind!" Martine McCutcheon
uk.style.yahoo.com/martine-mccutc…

Anxiety, out of the blue, was one of the hardest impacts of perimenoapuse for me.

I've had bouts of depression when I was younger, but never anxiety.

So I'm always grateful when celebrities and actors with platforms like Martine share their experience.
feministgiant.com/p/essay-menopa…

"Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t seem to hear about this side of it as much. I wanted to share this, just incase any of you out there feel the same and feel scared or worried - You aren’t alone!" uk.style.yahoo.com/martine-mccutc…

"In the US alone, one-third of the female population is peri- or postmenopausal...But even in 2022, this essential aspect of women’s health care is still stigmatized and shrouded in shame," Mary Claire Haver, M.D.

thedailybeast.com/its-time-to-en…

"A large part of this stems from the cultural guilt associated with growing old, which holds that once women lose their fertility, they must be withered, washed-out, and unworthy."

#Menopause