The anxiety that has no story attached to it. That's the bit I can't explain to anyone. Like I'll be fine, genuinely fine, making pasta or watching something on telly, and then this wave just... arrives. No trigger I can point to. No reason. Just a low-level dread that sits in my chest for an hour and then goes again as if it was never there. I'm 39 so everyone assumes it's just life stress. And maybe it is?? But it feels different to stress. Stress has an object. This doesn't. I've been writing things down this week, sleep, mood, roughly what time the anxiety hits, whether I slept through or woke at some horrible hour. Not sure what I'm looking for exactly but I wanted to have something concrete before I go to the GP because I know I'll walk in there and blank completely and come out with nothing. She's not unkind but I don't think peri is on her radar for someone my age. I want to ask about HRT and whether it can help with sleep specifically, not just flushes, because the sleep thing is wrecking me more than anything else right now. Does anyone have experience of raising that specifically with their GP? Like did you have to push? Also I've started doing really low-effort dinners on weeknights, nothing that requires actual thought, because by 6pm my brain is basically offline and cooking something complicated just tips me into overwhelm. Small thing but it's helped. Anyway. Hi. First time posting. x