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Jennifer Horgan: Women need to teach ‘experts’ what menopause really means

Menopause and pregnancy are natural conditions , but let’s not confuse ‘natural’ with ‘good’
Jennifer Horgan: Women need to teach ‘experts’ what menopause really means

There are no hard and fast rules about how women react to menopause, with vastly differing symptoms possible between individual women.

Our culture likes to generalise women.

In the generalisation game, there are obvious winners and losers. Do everything a certain way, and you win! Don’t, and you’re made to feel like you, or your body, didn’t get it quite right — or when it comes to your hormones, that you’re imagining it.

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