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The Wonder Chronicles: 23
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2023, 2019, 2012. Photos: Robert E. Rutledge

This is part of a running series. Read the previous Wonder Chronicle: On Menopause

Not Feeling Like Myself (NFLM). Symptom or gift of the menopause?

In a study published in May by The Journal of the Menopause Society, researchers say a google search of “I don't feel like myself” and “perimenopause” yielded 5.3 million results. They quote patients telling physicians  “I don't feel like myself — when do I get my life back”? And “I don't feel like myself. I don't know who I am. It's like an out of body experience.”

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