Life After Mental Illness and Menopause

Natasha Hawthorn
7 min readAug 18, 2021

Life spit me back out as a divorced, empty-nesting, menopausal, bipolar hot mess with P.T.S.D.

Mental illness wasn’t the only culprit; it was in cahoots with menopause. Combined, it was a T.K.O. A wormhole sucked me up and held onto me for a good 30 years before spitting me back out as a divorced, empty-nesting, menopausal, bipolar hot mess with P.T.S.D. I had no idea how to re-enter life as a…

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Natasha Hawthorn

Copywriter by trade; storyteller by nature. For fun, I like to evolve.