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Why Perimenopause Makes Everything Feel so Overwhelming
Perimenopause & Mental Health, Midlife Emotions & Identity Kira Hensley 2025-12-14 Perimenopause & Mental Health, Midlife Emotions & Identity Kira Hensley 2025-12-14

Why Perimenopause Makes Everything Feel so Overwhelming

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First panic attack in your 40s? Thanks hormones. Estrogen and progesterone both regulate your stress response system. When they decline in perimenopause, the threshold for a full alarm response drops. No prior anxiety history required. And hot flas Seeing straight through the bullshit. A nervous system that picks up everything. A kind of invisibility you never asked for. And, occasionally, the strength to bend steel in the middle of a peri rage. Not exactly what we expected. But there is some You've been managing. Coping. Keeping it together. And then perimenopause arrived, and suddenly the strategies that worked for years just...don't. The focus is gone. The memory is unreliable. The emotional regulation that used to feel automatic now