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Charlotte Sumbland’s friends at the walk in her honor. Image courtesy Manchester Evening News

This week I’m thinking about a TikTok video, a lovely woman and a headline – and a desperate audio note I recorded 10 years ago.

Filled with despair, that note marks one of my life’s Great Low Moments: Sitting in my car, in the rain, in the parking lot of restaurant in a big box mall parking lot in my hometown of London, Ontario, totally lost.

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Sure, it was a particularly screwed-up time in my life, but it was also the height of my earliest perimenopause – 10 freaking years ago – and I had no idea what was happening or what to do about it. No one I had seen by then did either, even though my eyelashes had fallen out, I was having panic attacks, nightmares, obsessive thoughts, sleep issues, heart palpitations, terrible headaches and the worst morning dread.

I fel…

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