Not all women are created equal…

That’s right! When it comes to Menopause not all women experience the same things,  our experiences are just as varied as we are as women, with our different shapes, sizes, colors,  backgrounds and attitudes, one experience does not fit ALL!  From what I understand with talking with other women,  not ALL of us experience the emotional effects of menopause, some women just gradually stop having their monthly cycle and they’re done!  And to you women, I’d just like to say CONGRATULATIONS on winning the coin toss on this one! If ever there were a party you didn’t want to be invited to, trust me, this would be the one!  I remember speaking to an older women that told me that she nor her mother went through the emotional part,  just the physical, Wow! How I wish I could claim that!  But noooooo, I’m left to cope with yet another thing, to add to my already overflowing plate of womanly things.   For women like me, we can just fondly remember what life use to be like before this whole change of life thing got started.

For you women who have PMS (premenstrual syndrome) I understand that the emotional part of Menopause is very similar, the moodiness, the crying for no reason and the just PLEASE! Leave me alone attitude. I never suffered from PMS as a teenager, so this emotional thing is all new for me, I’ve always been the la-la-la let’s make lemonade out of lemons kind of a person, but now I have moments of, “get me a bat! And let’s get to swinging type of person”, but for PMS folks , you may already have a jump start on this emotional thing, menopause will just add on to your portion. “ISN’T THAT JUST GREAT!”
Postpartum depression too, they all deal with hormonal imbalances. As you can see, our situations will very as well as our fears and fixations on things,  So for those of us that may have many symptoms, let us not hate on our girls that may only have one or a few. Let us view every experience in life whether bad or good, as those we can learn something from.