The results of this UVa study surprised me. More than half of women 30-35 have moderate to severe symptoms of menopause according to the Menopause Rating Scale; for women 36-40, it is almost two-thirds.
This makes sense with previous reports that the cohort of childless women at age 30 have only a 50% chance of ever having a child.
There isn’t a baseline to determine if this rate of menopause symptoms is a change or just an existing phenomenon that wasn’t previously measured.
MRS has a significant component related to mental health (including depression and anxiety) so there may be some relationship to increasing rates of mental illness for women in their 30s.
Perhaps a depressed woman in her 30s is perimenopausal so requires treatment for that instead of SSRIs.
Jaycee Woods 
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