Dear all, Having a tough menopause, I've just joined - this Forum will make me feel much better, I think, less alone and crazy. I have all the classic symptoms, and doing all the right things (taking ADs at times, as needed, though not HRT - not yet, anyway). But for all the psycho-symptoms, HOW do you stop yourself from imagining you have Alzheimer's, or that you'll inevitably get Alzheimer's, from having one's brain in such a state for all these menopause years? Obviously, this thought makes things worse and I do use CBT awareness on it. I'm basically healthy, working, happily married, etc. But how do you all prevent yourself from having the Alzheimer's thought, and manage instead to so helpfully laugh about it all - the brain-fog, depression, anxiety, etc - as a meno-symptom? Thanks.