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Stupid hormones making you do stupid stuff

5 replies

Tapoopoo · 22/08/2026 01:11

I'm starting to realise I need to consider HRT. One of the main reasons is that I have the impulse control of a toddler.

I've never thrown anything out of a window because I'm a grown up. But today I was fantasising about throwing crumpled up paper balls out of the bedroom window! Why? For "fun" apparently.

I cannot emphasise enough how much will power it took not to. In the end I had to close the window and take the key downstairs.

I have many other examples that are living up to the crazy peri/menopausal woman stereotype.

What stupid things have your hormones made you do that make you just shake your head.

OP posts:
MummyOre · 22/08/2026 09:28

I knew i needed to try HRT when the urge to drive into a brick wall was absolutely overwhelming!

TinyBully · 22/08/2026 17:26

For me it was the overwhelming anxiety. I had a full blown panic attack just because I needed to go buy a loaf of bread. HRT has helped

Skyflier · 26/08/2026 10:49

I threw myself at a much younger man. I’m married, he’s married and I don’t even fancy him. He was just nice to me. I’m still utterly mortified about it and went and got HRT pretty immediately after. I don’t know what possessed me and I didn’t even want to have sex with him. Even just typing this brings back the utter humiliation

Additup · 26/08/2026 12:12

Not menopause related but that mid cycle peak in oestrogen and testosterone commonly made me a bit of an animal 😂

We are all, male and female, ruled by hormones to a greater or lesser extent because they are what keep us going.

IdiotCat · 26/08/2026 12:20

I f88cked up and made our family move house because I felt weird and sad and panicky and out of control. I can't describe it ... I can't really articulate why :(
I was crying a lot and felt my life was at an end. All meaning was gone. It was like a panic attack or something.
We lost about £70k selling our lovely home and moving to a worse house plus it disrupted our lives.
Over 10 years later I still bitterly regret selling up and moving house.
I ask myself WHY WHY WHY over and over.
HRT helped me level off the panicky moods.

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