Such a syndrome is characteristic of menopausal women and some men during the climacteric, but these people failed to fit into this picture.
"Disturbing Sun"
Robert Shirley Richardson
She approaches the menopausal stresses with anxiety and apprehension, having done her duty to family and race, often having lived an exemplary self-sacrificing life, the intolerable contemplation of a late pregnancy drives her to desperate measures often for the first time in her life.
"Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Various Aspects of the Problem of Abortion in New Zealand"
David G. McMillan Janet Fraser Sylvia G. Chapman Thomas F. Corkhill Tom L. Paget