Feeling utterly lost, overwhelmed and stressed in my 50s

Dear Coleen

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I'M A woman in my early-50s and I'm feeling very overwhelmed by life right now. I'm post-menopause, which I realise has an impact on how I'm feeling, but I think it goes deeper than that.

I feel very disconnected from everything - friends, family, work - and it's a real struggle to get out of bed if I'm honest. I don't feel 100 per cent awful all the time - it ebbs and flows. But I do know it doesn't take much for me to fall off the edge.

My daughter is struggling in school, I'm worried about money and work, and a lot of the time I feel paralysed by the stress. It feels overwhelming when I think about where to start sorting out my life.