The anxiety is the bit I find hardest to explain. There's no trigger. Nothing happened. I'm not worried about anything specific. It just... arrives. Usually around 3am, sometimes earlier, sometimes it's just there when I wake up like it moved in overnight and made itself at home. I'm 39 and my GP is going to ask me what I'm anxious about and I genuinely won't have an answer and I know how that sounds. I've been jotting things down this week, sleep times, when the anxiety hits, what the night felt like, just so I have something concrete to show rather than sitting there going "I feel a bit off" and leaving with a leaflet about mindfulness. One thing I want to ask about is whether HRT can help with the sleep and the anxious-for-no-reason feeling, not just the flushes. Because I don't have dramatic flushes. I have this low hum of dread and a brain that refuses to switch off after 3am. Does that count? Is that enough to have a proper conversation about it? Also I've been doing a proper dinner instead of picking at whatever the kids leave, which sounds minor but I think it's helping me feel slightly less unhinged by bedtime. Very slightly. Anyway. If anyone's managed to explain the unexplained anxiety thing to their GP in a way that was actually heard, I'd love to know how you phrased it x