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Menopause is something that every woman on Earth will experience. It is just part of being a woman.

The "change of life" is something that is never easy to deal with. Lots of women are forced to deal with picky symptoms that make life hard and are difficult to control. Many women are anxious about the way their menopause symptoms will impact the other people in their lives. Thankfully, if you learn to identify menopause symptoms, you can be both a comfort and a help to any women who is going through her "changes." Learning about the symptoms of menopause can help you help her to understand what is happening to her body and to help her cope with entering the new phase of her life.

One of the most easy to identify menopause symptoms is the mood swing. In this respect, menopause looks quite a lot like puberty and, most ironically, like the early months of pregnancy. A woman going through menopause is prone to sudden and often, irrational mood swings. In one minute she can be completely calm. The next minute she will have burst into tears about something that she didn't care about last week. If a woman in your life is going through mood swings like these and isn't pregnant (or pubescent), she might be going through the stages of menopause. Try to have some heart!

For some women menopause will act very much like a pregnancy. One of the earliest symptoms of pregnancy that is also present in many menopausal women is extreme fatigue. A woman going through menopause is likely to feel what is called "crashing" fatigue. What I mean is not just a general feeling of exhaustion but major, whole body, exhaustion after any kind of activity and sometimes without any activity at all. The kind of exhaustion that will keep her in bed for more than a few hours. It could become so strong that she cannot get through her day without taking several naps. If you witness a woman in your life experiencing severe fatigue symptoms, talk to her about seeing her OB/GYN to determine if menopause is the cause.

Anxiety awareness can be troublesome during menopause. Suicide rates in menopausal women are higher than in those not yet experiencing the change due to overwhelming feelings of dread or impending doom. For some women these sensations become so strong that they get mistaken for panic attacks. Should one of the women in your life begin to behave in this manner or have these symptoms you can probably assume she has begun to go through the "change". Use every resource you have to help you maintain composure when helping her through this tough time, she will appreciate it when it's over.

Nobody enjoys going through menopause. Even if you aren't going through "the change" yourself, somebody you love is going to go through it eventually which means that you will be affected too. It is a really good idea to familiarize yourself with the symptoms of menopause. This will help you provide the right level of support to the women in your life who experience it. As well as helping you be sympathetic, doing this helps you to know what is going on when women reach certain ages. You could even be able to help the woman in your life figure out what is happening if she becomes sympathetic.