The complex journey of women living through menopause syndrome
Listening to women’s experience with vasomotor symptoms
Menopause is a natural event which occurs to every woman, affecting the hormonal balance in the body. In many cases, it comes with burdensome symptoms such as hot flushes, decreasing cognitive abilities etc., which may negatively impact a woman’s life. While the existence of these symptoms is widely known and analyzed, their impact on women’s daily lives and behaviors, as well as the emotional turmoil they trigger, are still under the radar in the public discourse. Given the context of taboo which surrounds menopause, women can feel particularly lonely, left with unpredictable, tedious symptoms and no real support or resource to understand what they go through. Our client, a leading global pharmaceutical player, asked us to shed light on the emotional patterns driven by menopause, with the final goal of knowing how they could more specifically support women with vasomotor symptoms (VMS).