To feel like a teenager in my 40s

[Orangeblossom78]

I hear the perimenopause can also be called 'middlescence'- a bit like a second adolescence. It certainly feels like it to me.

I am listening to Billie Eilish and feeling like I hate everyone. Increasingly moody and selfish also. AIBU or is anyone else going through this also?
What kind of new things do you find yourself doing?

I'm 50 and menopausal and have spent the night trying to decipher the new Twitter video from My Chemical Romance because I'm obviously a 13 year old closet Emo.

My mum said that when she hit 50 then she reverted to acting like a teen

I’m with you on this. I don’t feel like I’ve ever grown up. I look at people I went to school with and I’m shocked that they look older (because naturally I don’t!) I still get acne and when I’m on my own in the car,I have the music so loud it’s ridiculous. However,sometimes I’ll watch an 80’s Top of the Pops on BBC4 and know every lyric to every song and it’s brilliant but then other times I have no idea why I’ve just got up and gone in the kitchen! This then brings me crashing down to earth and I remember that I am actually getting on a bit!

We are as only as young as we feel!

I'm not far off 50 and haven't had a period for 8 years. I had a very easy menopause which practically happened without me noticing.

The new thing I'm able to do now is to fuck without worrying I'll get pregnant. Its liberating for me.

I just got this nook out the library called the 'second part of your life' anyway it was saying after the menopaus people can feel great and it kind of passes. I'm finding it a bit OTT and positive about this time 'giving birth to yourself' and the like. But that is may attitude atm!

I guess it can be time to find yourself and the like

Ok, book, menopause. I mean. Not sure what is happening to my brain either.

Yes not having to worry about contraception sounds great.

Dita I still get acne also and it has now been joined by this melasma (dark patches also) which apparently is hormonal. So I am having that teenage reaction to 'bad skin' also.

I thought the moody and selfish part was the inevitable slide into old age

The person who asked how long- NHS website says 7 years. For me it's been 6 years of absolute fury and dreadful clumsiness on and off.

A combination of St John's Wort and 5HTP really worked though. I stopped taking it a year ago and the clumsiness and rage reappeared recently so I'm back on it.

I like SJW as well Moving. It does help. I would love a boob job.