Spinning beachball keeps appearing and slowing down macbook

Hello,
Over the last week or so it has got worse.
My macbook runs fine and feels normal, but now has changed.
As soon as i start it up, and click on something, itll either freeze or ill get the spinning wheel for about 30 seconds.
I then have youtube open, and it wont play the video perfectly, then it will give the spinning wheel again.
Even whilst writing this thread it has frozen 3 times when scrolling down...
Any help?

So did you get an answer and if so, did it fix the problem and what was it? Nothing mentioned here. And ecalderwood, what are all the "thank you" for? I didn't read anything in the post that answered the problem????

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