Menopause Symptoms - Be Prepared Mentally!
By Dean
Menopause is a natural transition in life yet the term sends a shiver up the spine of the strongest-willed woman. Why? Maybe because it has been promoted as a necessary "evil" that all women, and in some cases men, have to battle at some stage during mid-life. But is battle the right word?

One of the most common comments I hear amongst health physicians is that many women just simply don't prepare for menopause. But how do you prepare for something that seems to sneak up on you from nowhere? Sure a woman's body goes through physical changes during this life changing phase but is it the physical symptoms of menopause that are the concern?

Preparing for menopause can start at anytime during the early thirties. No, you don't have to book yourself into some clinic or buy a passage on a spacecraft to some far away destination set up for menopausal women. It's been suggested that rather than the physical presence, it may be the mental challenges a woman faces during it's onset. A woman needs to recognise the symptoms early in order to cope with it mentally. The problem it seems is that many women will "sail" through the first four decades of their lives without doing some research on the effects of menopause and when it comes "knocking at the door" they're not conditioned mentally to handle it. Does this sound a familiar story.

My friend Cathy is an ideal case in point. We would often make short passing comments on menopause and when I would suggest that

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