Growing Up Hormonal

When starting this Blog, my original intention was to conduct a completely unscientific delve into how hormones can interfere with all areas of life.  This Blog has been decades in the making, not because I was fine honing a masterpiece, but due to my flip-flopping between over inflated confidence, closely followed by extreme anxiety and crippling self-doubt – quite exhausting! For example, being extra sensitive when the monthly visitor arrives.  However, having turned fifty in 2024, the monthly visitor is now quarterly at best and even that is fading to nothing!

When looking back, how many times do you think ‘maybe I overreacted’, although there was probably some foundation already in place for your upset/rage? Possibly on another day you would have sat at around a four out of ten on the ‘rage-o-meter’, but on that particular occasion you surpassed the ten and went into infinity and beyond?

During my hormonal years, in calm reflection there were many occasions when I asked myself the above. However, my chaotic mind jumps from one thing to another.  A friend once told me ‘I have known you four years and can now actually keep up with your random train of thoughts during our chats, and I do not know whether to be proud or petrified?!’.

While thinking about hormonal effects I found myself falling down a self-indulgent rabbit hole of nostalgia. Let me explain – thinking back to the time I started my periods in the 1980’s triggered some fabulous recollections from songs, films, social clubs and toys to people who are no longer present in my life, but who gifted me with memories to treasure forever.

I am praying that you readers are still here and have not left, desperately seeking a more professional, coherent piece of writing and that you will hopefully smile, laugh, empathise when reading about the trials and tribulations I faced, and still face on my hormonal rollercoaster.  So, buckle up and enjoy the ride!! I would also love to hear about your own experiences, even if it is simply to debate whether one slice of Viennetta is ever enough!