Srinagar, July 14 -- On most mornings, Aaliya Hameed wakes up tired. She teaches at a private school in Srinagar, comes home by mid-afternoon, and still feels too drained to talk, cook, or think clearly.

Her husband noticed it first. Then came the skipped periods, the thinning hair, the creeping anxiety.

She is 34.

By the time a gynecologist diagnosed her with hypothyroidism and early-stage polycystic ovary syndrome, she had already given up trying to explain how she felt.

"I wasn't just tired," Aaliya said. "I felt like something inside me had turned off."

Across Kashmir, this silent shutdown is becoming alarmingly common.

Women in their 20s and 30s - urban, educated, and often professionally employed - are reporting chronic fatigu...