Jojo Moyes
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And I saw this doctor and she just said, talk me through what's going on.
And I told her and she said, I think you have a completely understandable depression.
Like it's a completely natural reaction to everything that you're going through.
Could I ask you something?
Yeah.
Were you perimenopausal?
Yes, but I didn't know it at the time.
And I wish with hindsight that instead of antidepressants, I'd been given HRT.
Because I...
I think the vocabulary changed after that.
They did.
They did.
But I then read up about coming off them a couple of years later.
And that was very scary because it can really send you haywire.
So I was very badly advised by an online GP that I should take a couple of weeks.
And actually I took nine months.
I came off them super slowly at a kind of extraordinary slow rate.
And I am...
really grateful to not need them anymore.
But I do take HRT because that's what keeps me