Lately, I haven’t quite felt like myself. I’m more tired. I don’t sleep the way I used to. I wake up in the middle of the night, and sometimes I just want to keep sleeping. My appetite has changed. There are days when I eat because I know I have to, not because I’m actually hungry. There are moments when I’m more irritable, others when I feel anxious, and others when I simply don’t feel like doing much of anything. And I started asking myself: What is happening to me? Is it stress? Is it anxiety? Is it menopause? Is it everything going on in my life? Or is it a combination of many things? Because menopause doesn’t happen in a bubble. Life continues while our bodies are changing. We still have to work. We still have responsibilities. We still have relationships with other people. We still experience good moments and difficult ones. And anything happening around us — work, a relationship, a worry, an unexpected problem — can affect us emotionally too. I don’t think we can say that everything we feel comes from menopause. It can be a combination of many things. But perhaps the important thing is […]