In my opinion, menopause has been diagnosed in woman as a suffering, because is a period where women starts a big change in her life. Also, it is the mark where women end menstruation and childbearing capability, there is said that menopause varies widely. However, menopause has many health effects due to the hormonal changes. I think, been educated teach me to differentiated that the causes to prevent menopause is by having a healthy diet through the stages of life.
Also, I wanted to share an experience with one of my family members, she is my aunt, she has never married before and she is 53 years old. I remember when she starting having a really serious headaches and hot flashes called night sweats. It was terrible to see her suffering with this symptom. My mother also believes that menopause attacks more bad if you don’t get married because depending in your culture believes too. As my culture is a Mexican culture, so they believe that you have to be virgin until you get married. Therefore my aunt is paying the consequences of the culture beliefs during the stage of menopause; it is why sometimes society has much relationship with women aging, because due the stereotypes in the world menopause is portrayed as a major life tragedy.
I think women have to face this phase with knowledge and courage. It not mattering society’s opinion, because the aging of the woman has to be respected globally.
I agree with you in that it does seem that according to the world, menopause is portrayed as a major life tragedy. This is deemed to be so negative, and there are no positive things associated with this time in a women’s life. However, as you stated with education, these images can be changed in time. I am very grateful to being a women in these times, because when I hit my menopause era, I have choices from HRT, herbs and even the actress Suzane Somers has a solution that is suppose to help women. I do not believe one cure is going to work, there will need to be multiple solutions. I cannot image being alive in the 1800 or 1900’s and having to deal with this issue. But what we do know is that many women before us, have survived this so our chance for dealing with this is great. This is not a death sentence, unless we allow it to be. We must stay positive.
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