I am a 49year old female. For the last year and a half, I have been dealing with severe anxiety and depression. I believe it is related to peri menopause, as I had severe post partum depression after each child birth, and I had hot flashes for the first year (they ve subsided over the past 6 months), as well as changes in my cycle (I didn t have a period for over a year, but it has come back for 3 months in a row now starting in Jan 2017), as well as less common symptoms of peri menopause like tinnitus and breast cysts (still have these symptoms). I can handle any and all physical symptoms but the anxiety and depression are all but killing me. It is crippling and I am not functioning. I forgot to mention my heart races and pounds hard nearly at all times. My question is.....will my body ever adjust to lower levels of reproductive hormones? My body obviously doesn t like low hormones, as evidenced by post partum depression, but after about 8 to 9 months the hormones built back up and the depression lifted. But I m worried that since my body won t be producing the levels of hormones that it has been in my reproductive years, that this might not lift. What do you think?