When the chemistry shifts before the calendar does

Every major hormonal transition rewrites a woman's neurotransmitter balance. Estrogen falls, progesterone withdraws, serotonin follows, and something shifts in her chest before she has a name for it. Perimenopause, menopause, post-menopause: each passage reshapes the architecture of mood and perception.

Anxiety is often the first signal, arriving months or years before any physical symptom a doctor would recognize. She feels the dread before her cycle changes. She wakes at 3 a.m. with a certainty that something is wrong, but nothing is wrong. Her body is speaking in a language the medical timeline has not yet learned to hear.

Ozaia follows the biology. Not to explain it away, but to walk alongside her while the ground beneath her shifts.