Menopause: The Silent Killer of Women’s Mental Health
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In this episode we meet Jennifer. Her powerful story about experiencing joint pain, mood swings, and depression will directly connect you to the emotional and physical struggles that perimenopause symptoms create in a woman’s life. In Jennifer’s case these brutal symptoms have left her fighting suicidal thoughts and deep anxiety.
Jennifer’s story is not uncommon, and the courage she has shown publicly sharing her story will, if nothing else, let other women impacted by severe symptoms know they are not alone. Jennifer’s video will also give you hope.
Despite all the hardships, she shares how she has coped, what she has done to keep her marriage sound, and how she has turned this time of turmoil into a means of giving back by starting a company focused on women’s health.
Experiencing menopause symptoms can make you feel caught off guard, out of control, confused and alone.
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Am I In Menopause? PROJECT is a platform for radically honest storytelling that gives a voice to diverse individuals experiencing struggles with midlife women’s health.
We’ve identified asked a selected group of individuals and asked them to participate in this a project so they can in which they share stories about their personal experiences with menopause symptoms. We hope that through this project of shared storytelling it will help us all learn more what’s happening to our bodies, give us tools and information that we can use for our own self-care, and remind us that we are not alone.
Am I in menopause? PROJECT uses personal shared stories to:
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Struggling with Menopause or Perimenipause Symptoms?
If you are a person aged 35 – 55 experiencing sudden hot flashes, night sweats, mood swings, rage, depression, insomnia, anxiety, vaginal dryness, memory loss or any of the 35+ known symptoms of the menopause transition, you are in the right place.
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44 Comments
Anxiety feels debilitating. I get it. I used to drive a lot by myself, travel to see Family. Now I don’t even want to drive anymore. Mostly I just stay home. Forget about grocery shopping, making decisions feels impossible. I used to own a company with employees.
I’m 66. It started after a hysterectomy at 45.
I hear you lovely lady . 🦘🇦🇺🌷🌷🌹 I hope you find some solace and peace soon . I have the same things going down at the moment
Yes it's scary. Not one Doctor told me there's different stages of menopause like peri, post and so on. I had to read about it. Also the forgetfulness was scary! I thought I was going crazy! I feel for this woman. I felt sad too with the changes years ago. I try to eat healthy, meditate, yoga really helped me. And lifting weights. Also self care is a big one.❤
Im very greateful for this video and all those wonderful woman commenting, it helps a lot to know Im not going insane and Im not alone in this sh** ❤
Wow, I can't believe she feels this way, and she's beautiful. That hair is gorgeous and her eyes🤩. I hope she overcomes this feeling 😔
I had stopped HRT. I had a major body and brain crisis.
I am back on HRT and back to myself. Had major depression brain fog hair loss and painful vagina dryness and bleeding.
I had stopped HRT. I had a major body and brain crisis.
I am back on HRT and back to myself. Had major depression brain fog hair loss and painful vagina dryness and bleeding.
Yea it sucks 😢
😢I can relate!
It makes me so sad hearing women talk like this. I’m 30 so my struggles are more related to work, children and husband etc but I can only imagine once the kids are gone, work slows down or your retired and things aren’t maybe as intimate with your partner how lonely it can be especially while going through menopause. One of our patients was telling me last week that she actually used to think about hopping on a plane and just leaving her husband and family constantly for months and then she started hormone replacement therapy and those thoughts completely stopped. She realized it was the menopause talking not actually what she felt and wanted.
My heart breaks for her. I hope she’s better now.❤
Dr. Mary Claire Haver saved my life. By God's grace, I found her on youtube last year. She has so much information for women. No you are not going crazy, what you are experiencing is REAL! Dr. Claver is the first to bring Menopause out into the open. You are a beautiful woman, hormones or lack of can cause havoc on our bodies. May God's blessing shine on you 🤗
The aging process, simply said, is a mind fuck. Our brains are wired for survival, but our bodies are not born to live forever. We cognitively witness the transformation from youth to old age, but our minds don’t accept reality.
Sending love to all women going through these changes.
I'm still going through this… Hair has fallen out, so depressed. I don't know who to go to because they don't do anything to help
I am right there, it's awful…and fraigtening…thankiu for speaking up, now I don't feel lonely going thru this nonsense and I ready to read and write about it, to help me and others to go thru this stage…and to be careful too
I can understand her completely. I have always hated my body, exercised a lot to change it. At one point i was quite muscular what i love but now in menopauze all muscle are gone. I exercise and have a sport diet but it doesn't help anymore. My body is hurting also my muscles are tired of years of exercising so very intense. My solution is not looking in the mirror anymore and my happiness are my animals. I can't take hormones because i had a trombose in my leg 10 years ago. I know i have to cherish my health and i do but the aging is intense and difficult to accept. You can't change the thoughts in your head completely i just don't look at myself too much because i start to cry when i do and i don't want to ruin the years i have left.
I'm so glad that i didn't go through menopause. It sounds horrible. I simply stopped having a period at age 48. No other symptoms. That was twenty years ago.
We can no longer have kids so our bodies naturally self destruct it’s frickin awful!!
Hopefully there will be much more research/support by the time my daughter gets to mp
Stay strong ladies we got this!! ❤
I just have anxiety.. some days worse than others. Thankfully, I have symptoms far less than most of the people commenting on here but menopause DOES take its toll..
St. John's Wort
Are u an actress?
Can we prepare ourselves somehow?
I hope u can find joy again don't hate yourself your precious . I don't think it's only the menopause it's the hardships you go through when there is no one u can trust❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ but there are better people out there with love 😘
I totally feel her. I thought I was going crazy. HRT has been a miracle for me and I’m not looking forward to when I have to come off of them.
Let Jesus into your heart and it will burst with happiness
But the backround music
It makes me never want to leave the house or talk to anyone. I just keep thinking. I'm gonna snap out of it and I don't.
This is real, and if you can’t tolerate HRT the way through is hard to find because drs don’t typically know what to do beyond hormone replacement and psych meds (which can make things worse)
BUT there is a way through
For me I had to PRAY, like it was my last days, and from there came the will to try
Then it was otc supplements including vit d and plant extract supplements (rhubarb root but soy can work), i needed help with sleep, found a GABA melatonin valerian root combo on amazon
Then a radical dietary change (carnivore but at least do keto) which led to a lot less depression and cleared most of the brain fog then exercise came naturally
That pulled me right out and gave me strength back, rid me of most of the anxiety
Maybe you can skip the prayer but I was in bondage for sure, I needed God’s help to release me from addictions i had picked up in an attempt to cope, coupled with suicidal ideation
I really believe I wouldn’t have had the strength or will to make the dietary change especially without supernatural support
Is it menopause or is it our anti aging society? We need to protect and offer secure loving spaces for older women, rather than isolating them. The Pandemic didn't help matters, and this very caustic far right political environment too when independent liberal women, especially older and the more vunerable, are targeted! Stay strong, Sis….Know it isn't you, Ok? You getting older, wiser should be celebrated, not denigrated! I hope you read this…Know that you are appreciated and loved, and you are truly Beautiful in all Ways! ❤
Candida over growth also causes depression and suicidal thoughts. I used natural anti fungals and a no carb diet.
God bless this woman. I am on hormone replacement therapy. Estradiol patches, oral progesterone and testosterone cream. I am a human again. My brain is better. Almost 73y/o and working two 13 hr shifts as an RN. Have to pay the bills.
53 and going through it. It's awful.
I am post menopause I think.
It was 2 yrs ago at 54yo.
But I may also still be pre menopausal.
Plus, I am Hypothyroid patient since end 2019.
A lot of things happened and it affected my work.
Been terminated from work 2x since Hypothyroid.
However, I think I had thyroid issues since in my 20s or 30s. I just couldn't focus and made a few mistakes at work. Caused me a few jobs. Probably 5-6 prior to 2019. And during those years, my weight kept going up and down many times. I didn't take note until a friend addressed this to me.
So now, I try my best to focus and be better. What I still have issues with is, exercise which I hate to do but, must do.
Dang lady! I feel ya, Hormone changes suck but look at how old you are! My change’s happened when I was 40 odd if not earlier! Being a woman sucks at times but is good for alot too(even though criminal women don’t do that any justice 🙄).
Love who you are, realise that, find some hormone adjustments and go with it.
LIVE, LAUGH, LOVE. 🥰
I felt this 10000000% you are not alone
Somatic meditation can help you develop an incredible relationship with your body. I have TRD and CPTSD. This meditation style saved my life. Did for me in one year what traditional meds and psychotherapy couldn’t touch in 30. Even when my body is angry or despairing, I feel so alive inside it. This feeling of aliveness is how I keep suicidal ideation at bay. I wouldn’t be here without it.
Yes I’m still working through it
I find estrogen helps in a gell and testosterone small small amount of cream yet I seem to be so far progesterone intolerant so the anxiety is not sorted yet
Lockdown didn’t help that
Magnesium stress formula helps a lot
Sometimes the sadness is us saying we want a better life too though and part of Menapause re empowers you
I want to give this lady such a big hug she is so beautiful inside and out hope she is ok now ??
From a beautiful flower you slowly fade away in a horrible way! No sleep, body fading away! Looks gone. Etc etc
I've had suicidal thoughts since I was 16… So.. it will never end basically 😅
❤I'm 52, and I'm suicidal. I think it's important to share this and not sugar coat it.
I no longer want to live.❤
I want to go home to God.
This is me without the depression!! Being a woman is hard and society standards are always judging….
Why anyone wants to become a woman… it’s beyond me!!
I like being a woman, but is not easy and in top of all those hormones we have hair and makeup 😵💫
Oh beauty, sending you love. All these changes are so confusing and I am just so grateful more women are talking about it!!! Thank you ❤
I have been going through it for 2 years, i have had 3 different types of HRT, i have no energy, i have put on weight, i have lost my hair, i have not left the house in over a year, i tried to commit suicide last august and got no help, i have constant anxiety and depression, i have no appetite, yet i have to work full time from home, i struggle to get up in the morning and can't sleep at night as my legs start jumping and aching, i have tried all sorts of supplements and home remedies but nothing works