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Why Perimenopause Makes You Feel Like You’re “Losing It” - And Why You’re Not
Perimenopause & Menopause, Anxiety, Stress & Overwhelm Kira Hensley 2025-12-04 Perimenopause & Menopause, Anxiety, Stress & Overwhelm Kira Hensley 2025-12-04

Why Perimenopause Makes You Feel Like You’re “Losing It” - And Why You’re Not

If you’ve hit your 40s or 50s and suddenly feel more emotional, more overwhelmed, more irritable, more forgetful, or more reactive than you’ve ever been, you are not alone — and you are not “losing it.”

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Perimenopause didn’t create this rage— it revealed the load. 
Perimenopause rage can feel like it comes out of nowhere—like you blink and suddenly you’re snapping. But for a lot of women, it’s not random. It’s your When perimenopause rage hits fast, it’s often an overload surge—your nervous system flipping into threat mode before your mind can catch up. The goal isn’t to “calm down perfectly.” It’s to create a tiny pause, red In perimenopause, your nervous system may stop buffering the load that you’ve been carrying.

The body may now feel it as a threat and fire up to protect you from harm. 

View this as a signal that capacity is down and something needs to change