You walk into a room and forget why. You open your mouth and the word — the simple, common word — is gone. You read the same paragraph three times. You forget the name of someone you've worked with for ten years. You wonder, briefly and seriously, if this is early dementia.
This is the library. The room where the words used to live, perfectly shelved. Now half the books are missing and the catalog has been rewritten in a language you don't read.
It is not dementia. Menopausal brain fog is real, well-documented, and almost always temporary. Estrogen plays a major role in cognition — when it dips, your brain runs on different fuel for a while. Most women's cognitive function returns to normal post-menopause. Knowing that doesn't make today easier, but it changes what you tell yourself at 2 p.m. when you can't find the word for “envelope.”
What lives in the library with you. Tools for the missing words.
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