There is another time in a woman's life when hormone levels decline. This is the menopause. The decline in hormones during menopause is slow and steady. If you have one of your bosses, and many people do, sometimes to please one you have to displease the other. Answering the above questions will let you know how stressful your job is.
Work is a significant source of stress for many people.
Conflicts on the job, dissatisfaction with one's supervisor or with the job itself, insufficient financial compensation, job insecurity, fear of changing a job for greater advancement, feeling stifled in a quest for power, not feeling appreciated or acknowledged, all produce significant stress. The degree of stress will vary depending on the personality of the individual. Fatigue and Overwork A particularly unpleasant source of stress comes from what many authors call 'Hurry Sickness'. Here we can get into a vicious circle of stress, which causes us to hurry jobs and do them badly. This under-performance causes feelings of frustration and failure, which causes more stress, which causes more hurry and less success, and so on.