Perimenopause and CP

whattoputhere
whattoputhere Online Community Member Posts: 4 Listener
in Mental health and wellbeing

Hi,

It’s really hard to know how to start this, and how much I feel comfortable saying, but I’m really struggling with anxiety, overthinking and depression at the moment and I’m not sure how much of it is perimenopause or how much of it is just my life.

A couple of friends talked about their perimenopausal symptoms with me today, and while they have similar ones to me, they don’t have CP so I’m wondering if anyone here is going through more similar struggles.

I live alone, have speech difficulties, am worried about my elderly parent, have carers who assist me but they’re going through their own struggles so it’s hard to get comfortable with tmy current ones. I work full-time, have always had major confidence issues, and feel like crying a lot of the time. I started HRT recently and I thought it was starting to work, but any knock back with routine or plans not working out sends my anxiety and overthinking into overdrive. I have a follow up appointment with the private doctor who issued the HRT next Friday, but fear that they aren’t knowledgeable enough about CP to understand that nuance. I don’t understand it myself.

I’m thinking of looking into counselling services that are text-based, but don’t want to be ripped off and am not sure that therapy like that is for me anyway. I’ve always been very independent and have dealt with stuff pragmatically. Feel like I’m failing apart now.

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