You Are Not Losing Your Mind. This Is Your Brain in Menopause.

You lost the word again. It was there, and then it wasn't, and you stood in the middle of a sentence in a meeting while eleven people waited for you to find it. You walked into the kitchen and could not retrieve why. You read the same paragraph four times. You called your daughter by your sister's name. You forgot the name of someone you have worked with for six years, in the moment you were introducing her. And somewhere in the last few months, a thought arrived that you have not said out loud to anyone: something is wrong with my brain. Maybe you have already started doing the private calculations. Whether your grandmother was like this. Whether you should see someone. Whether you should tell your husband, or whether that would make it real. You have almost certainly not mentioned it at (...)

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