@WanderingHuman If you have access to primary care, it wouldn't hurt to get your thyroid checked, just to rule that out. It can be a bit of a copycat.

Being in an extended period of crisis will trash the nervous system, so that comes into play as well. Humans aren't built for dystopia.

So it could be a few things, and maybe a couple in combination, but if you have a good doc or NP it's worth having a conversation about perimenopause if you haven't done that already.

Estrogen dropping takes dopamine along for the ride, which only makes things worse.

For a lot of us, the symptoms of peri and menopause are being amplified by the state of the world. Especially those of us with neurodivergent brains. Peri/menopause isn't a hormone event, it's a brain event. That little fact still isn't really discussed all that much.

Apologies if you know all this already. I'm doing an info dump from what I've learned/experienced. I didn't get hit with big symptoms until I was well into menopause. HRT helped me a lot, but now I'm in burnout, so 🤷🏻‍♀️

I hope you can get some answers tailored for you and that you feel better soon.