This is all so fascinating. Its important we to understand how we can all be so different due to hormones. I wouldn't know of people didn't share in forums like this. Either you think something is wrong with you if you think you're different from everyone else, or else think that everyone has the same things happen to them.
I've read about PND being the 'wrong' extreme hormones being switched on. I had a health visitor tell me that giving birth (or having a miscarriages) was like all our hormones being thrown up in the air and not knowing quite what cars you were going to be dealt. I was a very different - better? - version of myself when pregnant and breastfeeding. I'd have taken in orphan babies and nurtured them 24/7, when in reality, once I was past the infant years, I went back to being someone who doesn't really like being around other people's small children. I think CM is very wrong to write about the perimenopause as though it's a one size fits all, and also to insinuate female hormones make all women kind. Vit feels like it gives men a freecpass to be angry and unkind. In reality, many women haven't spent their ferrule years bathed in the placid hormones - in yet have still managed not to go around being violent.
My criticism of CM, was to assume she were saying women's hormones stop them being