Life Stages · Midlife
Midlife mental health and the menopausal transition
A short reading list on the cluster of mood, sleep, and cognitive changes that the perimenopause window often brings — including for people who don't identify as women.
The Menopause Society6 min read
The Menopause Society's patient-education hub is the most reliable free resource on the mental health dimensions of perimenopause and menopause — including the elevated depression risk window, the sleep disruption that magnifies everything else, and the cognitive complaints that are usually transient.
Particularly useful for clinicians whose training preceded the recent rehabilitation of hormone therapy as a mood-relevant treatment option for some patients.
Mental Hum's library is a curated index of authoritative third-party resources. The summary above is our own framing; the full information lives at the source.
A note on this article
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