Life After Mental Illness and Menopause
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…