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aja

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stress resilience
« on: September 26, 2025, 06:33:09 AM »

Hello!

I was always good at handling stress in my life with a lot of work and everything. But perimenopause completely destroyed my resilience to stress.
I am now 48 and i am startled and shaking with every small stressor.
Is this normal for perimenopause? Does it get better after menopause? do we regain that stress resilience?

thank you!
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juliaC

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Re: stress resilience
« Reply #1 on: September 26, 2025, 11:41:35 PM »

Hello aja

I don't know the answer to this but just jumping on to say I'm feeling similar, you are not alone.  Things help, like mindfulness, talking myself through things etc, but considering I was well skilled in all that for most of my adult life, it's like I'm having to learn it all over again.  I'm taking hrt but it needs a thorough review.  I know that when I first began it my resilience bounced back without any effort on my part.  Now, not happening, so something needs changing.

Anyway, I hope you feel stronger soon, but I do relate and I think a lot of others will do too.  :)
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aja

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Re: stress resilience
« Reply #2 on: September 27, 2025, 12:53:07 PM »

Thank you JuliaC

It helps a lot knowing that someone understands you.
There are so many changes and they come all of a sudden out of nowhere that I am not able to absorb them all and digest all this and to adjust.
I don’t know myself anymore because so many things changed to worse that i just watch with fear.
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