Jul 2, 2026 · 53 min · 12 segments
Menopause isn’t just a physical experience; it’s a mental one, too. In this episode, host and therapist Sreela Roy-Greene sits down with the mother-daughter duo Dr. Amy Shah and her mother, Rekha, to…
When you're looking back, you know, what do you feel like your body was trying to tell you?
I started getting more anxious about everything, but more about sleep.
So, you know, I said, "Is there something wrong with me? Why I can't sleep, and why I'm getting so much anxious?" You know, I did not realize that there is something physically also going on that was causing this trouble, and I, I just thought it is me and my willpower.
I did not know that that was menopause.
That was-
...
the first sign that something is going on, and I could- I couldn't recognize that what is wrong with me.
It was.
Yes.
Yeah.
It was very, very, very, very scary.
Yes.
I mean, I, I think you were saying that you felt like almost like you were going crazy or something.
Yeah.
Like peop- you know, um, my husband probably thought that I'm going crazy because all of a sudden, you know, how can you have a low, uh, low willpower and, you know, uh, why you are worried about sleep and why, you know, worry.
Maybe you are, uh, taking too much, uh, stress for nothing, and things like that, you know?
When y- you, you were describing what you were experiencing, how did that show up in your behavior, or did you notice how it showed up in your behavior?
Yeah.
So in my behavior, it was happening, like, you know, I was working, uh, as a HR person and I had a payroll going on on Monday.
When you're looking back, you know, what do you feel like your body was trying to tell you?
I started getting more anxious about everything, but more about sleep.
So, you know, I said, "Is there something wrong with me? Why I can't sleep, and why I'm getting so much anxious?" You know, I did not realize that there is something physically also going on that was causing this trouble, and I, I just thought it is me and my willpower.
I did not know that that was menopause.
That was-
...
the first sign that something is going on, and I could- I couldn't recognize that what is wrong with me.
It was.
Yes.
Yeah.
It was very, very, very, very scary.
Yes.
I mean, I, I think you were saying that you felt like almost like you were going crazy or something.
Yeah.
Like peop- you know, um, my husband probably thought that I'm going crazy because all of a sudden, you know, how can you have a low, uh, low willpower and, you know, uh, why you are worried about sleep and why, you know, worry.
Maybe you are, uh, taking too much, uh, stress for nothing, and things like that, you know?
When y- you, you were describing what you were experiencing, how did that show up in your behavior, or did you notice how it showed up in your behavior?
Yeah.
So in my behavior, it was happening, like, you know, I was working, uh, as a HR person and I had a payroll going on on Monday.
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