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Dear Coleen

I’m a woman in my early-50s and I’m feeling very ­overwhelmed by life right now. I’m post- menopause , which I realise has an impact on how I’m feeling, but I think it goes deeper than that. ‌

I feel very disconnected from everything – friends, family, work – and it’s a real struggle to get out of bed if I’m honest. I don’t feel 100 per cent awful all the time – it ebbs and flows. But I do know it doesn’t take much for me to fall off the edge. ‌

My daughter is struggling in school, I’m worried about money and work, and a lot of the time I feel paralysed by the stress. It feels overwhelming when I think about where to start sorting out my life. ‌

I never thought I’d be ­struggling so much at this point in my life. I had a good career for many years an

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