Perhaps you shouted over a cup left on the worktop. The anger vanished as fast as it arrived and left behind one thought you could not bear to say aloud. What is wrong with me?

Or perhaps anger is not it at all. Perhaps you cried in a supermarket car park with no explanation, or woke with dread pressing on your chest before anything had gone wrong. The shame afterwards is often worse than the episode.

This book will not tell you that harm does not matter because hormones are involved. The people around you are allowed to be affected, and repair is still yours to do. But being responsible for your behaviour is not the same as accepting that you have simply become a worse person.

It separates what the transition can genuinely do to mood, anxiety and irritability from what circumstance, exhaustion and untreated illness are doing, and shows you how to tell the difference well enough to ask for the right help.

Menopause Mood, Anxiety and Rage is Book Five in The Menopause Clarity Series.