You got spots, your body changed and it was all confusing and crap. It was exhausting and you needed to sleep a lot, no-one understood, due to the fact that you were incapable of communicating what was going on. Remember when you were a teenager all those years ago, you burst into tears over seemingly nothing, then got angry then morose then normal then back to tears all in the space of a few minutes.
If you are having mood swings and emotional outbursts you are a typical mad, hormonal woman. No matter what the environment, all require the woman to exit quickly, whilst praying that nothing has seeped through or is showing. This symptom is as upsetting as it is unpredictable and seems to happen at the most inconvenient moment - during important meetings, whilst presenting, during discussions with Managers or team members. Women pretty much haemorrhage without any warning. The name gives you an indicator of what happens. Whilst most women’s periods get lighter or last for fewer days this is not the case for those who suffer with flooding. Periods get lighter at this time of a woman’s life. Conversely some women suffer with cold flushes which are agonising. Some companies see the offer of a desk fan as a suitable ‘tick in the box’ for a Menopause policy. Whilst this may seem lucky to those of us who sweated it out, in reality these women are often not taken seriously when they seek help. Many women never have a hot flush at all.
You’re not having a Menopause, if you’re not having hot flushes.
#Kate usher age skin#
Your skin will immediately resemble that of an 80-year old who has never applied sun-screen.When you are Menopausal and emotional, it is because you are suffering from ‘empty nesting’.If you’re younger than 45 you can’t be peri-Menopausal.If you’re having mood swings and emotional outbursts you are a typical mad and hormonal woman.Periods get lighter at this time of a woman’s life.You’re not having a Menopause, if you don’t have hot flushes.Which leads us to some of the other assumptions around symptoms: We have no images for these women as its easier for most to make them invisible. Or as Freud would say ‘hysterical’ women, entirely unwelcome in the workplace. If a woman was in the 25% who didn’t experience any symptoms during her peri-Menopause then she can’t transition into the other 25% who experience extreme symptoms during her post-Menopause, and heaven forbid if a woman hangs out in the unspoken of 25% who struggle to make it though the day without medical, psychological, and emotional intervention, this group of outliers tends to be represented as bloody unreasonable. We assume that this is something that women in their fifties experience therefore it’s an older woman’s affliction - cue pictures of women in their sixties with a fan.
The problem is that wherever the averages lead Pied Piper-like, our assumptions follow. On average 25% of women experience no symptoms, and 50% whilst experiencing some symptoms can manage them. On average women will experience their symptoms for eight years, and so it goes on. On average, women will experience their Menopause – 12 months after their last period – at the age of 51. It rubs out the pesky outliers and makes things easier to communicate and easier to digest. The media love averages because it makes life easy to understand, it looks at the core, the middle of the road where most of the statistics hang out. Statisticians love averages, it comes with the territory.
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