question: My mother (53 y,o.) has always been emotional, but lately her emtional irregularity has been very extreme. Last night after a heated arguement with the family, she burst into tears and began expressioning symptoms of psychosis. Bizarre behavior (not understanding what the function of furniture was, blank expressions), and then she may have had a hallucination of her deceased mother. When she snapped out of it, she could not remember what happened, but just remembers that she felt she was in darkness with voices around her. 30 minutes later I assesed to see if she oriented x3, but she failed. An hour later she was oriented x3, and was slowly returning to baseline. She currently is doing better, but not 100% herself. She may be in the early stages of menopause, and has no other psychiatric history. Is this common in menopausal women?