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The Definitive Guide to Perimenopause & Mental Health
Perimenopause & Menopause, Women's Mental Health Kira Hensley 2025-12-05 Perimenopause & Menopause, Women's Mental Health Kira Hensley 2025-12-05

The Definitive Guide to Perimenopause & Mental Health

If you’ve entered perimenopause and suddenly feel anxious, overwhelmed, irritable, exhausted, foggy, or simply “not like yourself,” you’re not alone…

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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