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What if a hormonal disorder rewrote your identity?

3/24/202657 min

After decades of stability, a woman’s experience of menopause brings back a lifetime of buried symptoms and reveals an unexpected truth about her identity, forcing her to reexamine everything she thought she knew about herself.

 

Today’s storyteller wishes to remain Anonymous. If you’d like to reach out to her, you can email her at SunflowerSpark44@gmail.com. 

 

Producers: Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits

 

Content/Trigger Warnings: Suicidal ideation, mental illness, child abuse (mentioned), sexual abuse (mentioned), medical trauma, emotional distress, divorce, death of a loved...

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  1. Whit Missildine· Host0:00

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  2. Speaker 10:09

    This Is Actually Happening features real experiences that often include traumatic events. Please consult the show notes for specific content warnings on each episode and for more information about support services.

  3. Whit Missildine· Host0:19

    Hi, listeners. Last week, I launched a Substack called Beyond the Story, and I'm so grateful to everyone who subscribed. It's really been so meaningful to share my reflections there and to hear from you all, so if you haven't subscribed yet, I'd love to see you there. You'll find an article I wrote about why I started the show, as well as some of my own mental health struggles that form the basis of the storytelling that we do here. You'll also find an article reflecting on last week's episode, as well as one on this week's episode that I just posted today. To subscribe, go to whitmiseldine.substack.com. Again, it's called Beyond the Story at whitmiseldine.substack.com. It's free, and I'm thrilled to share this new addition to the show with you. And now, on to today's episode. What if a hormonal disorder rewrote your identity?

  4. Speaker 2· Guest1:08

    I lived this life that I thought was me, and then I woke up that day, and that life didn't feel like me. The house I was in didn't feel like my house. The neighborhood that I lived in felt like someone had transplanted me there. The routine

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