'Police mentioning menopause in Nicola Bulley's case is wrong - this is what menopause really is like'
Lancashire Police's disclosure of personal information about missing Nicola Bulley led to a backlash.
To be honest, I thought it would be similar to a bad period and would last no longer than a year. Eight years and 30 symptoms later, I know how naive and ill-informed I was. The other part of this is how women over the age of 40 were shown or not shown in films, TV and magazines. None of it was positive.The average age of menopause is 51 in this country. The average age women will be when they experience symptoms is between 45 and 55.
For the unlucky few, there are some symptoms like hot flushes and insomnia, that will remain with them for the rest of their lives. When my menopause started, only one of my friends had experienced it, the rest simply weren't in that phase of life. The isolation I felt was crushing. 'Regaining control' I had anxiety and depression, mixed with severe sleep deprivation due to insomnia and night sweats. I had gone from someone who thought they were pretty invincible to someone who could barely get out of the door in the morning to take her young children to school.
I work with organisations to raise awareness and develop the processes to ensure their talented employees keep achieving. We as a society we need to demand more diverse senior leadership teams in organisations, supporting menopause is one way to do that. When I became post menopausal at the age of 49, I hoped things would calm down however the opposite was true, they got considerably worse. All the GPs I had seen were reticent to give me HRT, with things rapidly spiralling out of control, in desperation I paid to see a specialist gynaecologist who within an hour prescribed me HRT, for me it was like a magic potion.
What Lancashire Police said - and what followed Lancashire Police released a statement earlier this week saying mum Nicola suffered with ‘some significant issues with alcohol brought on by her ongoing struggles with the menopause’ and had been classed as ‘vulnerable’ and ‘high-risk’ after partner Paul Ansell reported her missing.
Kate, 54, who lives in London and has two children, added: "I think the inclusion of the menopause in the police statement is terrible. Even the suggestion of menopause and her associated alcohol use, what that’s doing is distracting from the real issues that this poor woman is missing and her family desperately needs her home.
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