Social interaction

[RatiTeen]

I have quite a good friends circle and I usually socialise a lot. Last 4-6 months socialising doesn't give me much joy. I'm been avoiding my friends and turning down all the invites for social events. This is not me. My friends keeps reaching out and I always gives excuses like fever, busy workload, in-laws visit etc.

I'm in mid-40s women. Is this anything to do with menopause stage? Or mental illness?

Could you be depressed? Are you finding yourself struggling with other things like housework?

This is how I felt then realised I could be perimenopausal, HRT has fixed me! I realise it's not that simple for everyone but it's worth exploring.

I do not struggle to do house work or office work. If I have something lined up I get into it and complete it. The issue is when I do not have anything lined up.

Could it be that as you're getting older your taste is changing in terms of the things you want to be doing?

My lifelong friends and I have really changed the way we socialise over the years. In our 20s it was clubs, festivals, Ibiza and getting drunk, 30s pubs, dinners out, dancing 40s eating at each other's houses and then in my 50s and 60s we walk our dogs together, have pub lunches, go to vintage fairs for example.

Perhaps it's not the socialising but where you do it and how.