A Big Transition

I ended up at the doctor's office this morning. I won't go into detail. Suffice it to say that the last few months being female has been less fun. I learned today that it is very possible that my body is undergoing it's own existential crisis: perimenopause.

Okay, so it's not really a crisis but my body is certainly sending me subtle and not so subtle indications that things, they are a-changing. And yet, knowing this is also serving to calm my mental crisis bells a bit.

A look at the list of symptoms puts a lot of what I was chalking up to information overload, stress, my own mental failings and just overall "losing it" can, interestingly, be attributed to "the change before The Change." These are the symptoms I can tick off the list and say yep, yep, yep (I'm not sharing the touchy ones that are non-of-your-business, so stop cringing and worrying that this will be TMI):

• Mood swings
• “Fuzzy thinking”
• Irritability
• Decreased energy and ambition
• Depression or mood swings
• Headaches
• Mental confusion

It makes me feel better that at least there might be a bio-chemical reason for my lapses and funkiness of late...Now, I wonder if there's any relief to be had or if I just have to wait the 5-13 years before I get my mind back (such as it is...)?