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Life Transitions | Women’s Health
Sitting With Myself: Psilocybin Use in Perimenopause
Learnings in turning to the mushroom to facilitate this life transition
I was sitting across from my doctor in her office this past summer. She, on her highback rolling chair, and I at the edge of the hard fold-up seat.
“You’re much too young to be going through perimenopause,” my doctor told me.
I paused.
I couldn’t believe what she was saying (and yet I could).
“The recent literature points towards an average perimenopause transition in late thirties to early forties,” my 43-year-old self replied, “I think this is what is going on with me.”
The what is going on with me was a sudden onset (for the last 6 months or so) of hair loss, unexplained weight gain, depression and anxiety symptoms, intrusive thoughts, PMS, irritability, and insomnia.
I was perplexed.
Turning 40, I felt the best I’d ever felt. Turning 41 and 42, things were getting even better.
And then BAM… 43 came and everything changed.
It’s not like everything changed overnight. But things changed rapidly.
