If you are suddenly more exhausted than you used to be, sleep is worse, and rest is no longer as restorative, you might have been told, „it’s the hormones™“. Yes, hormones are real, but for perimenopause, that explanation is incomplete.
Perimenopause
Is It Burnout or Perimenopause? Understanding The Difference
Fatigue, mood swings, disrupted sleep, less resilience… the overlap of symptoms (and not only the symptoms) is confusing. A diffuse change, not for the better, in capacity. Most people in their thirties and forties encounter some version of this. It is a diagnostic problem a) because