But it appears that the immense difficulty I've had in coping with what of late have become ever-present stresses may be in part to hormonal influences.
Sometimes it's relief to count on one's fingers, and find calendaric evidence to explain such fits of emotion.
Not to say that means I'm "all better now" but I have a time-honored symptomatic relief to try: chocolate. I've got a fairly large amount left over from Easter.