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Mad Woman
- Narrated by: Bryony Gordon
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
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Mad Woman
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Publisher's Summary
Bryony Gordon presents the long-anticipated follow up to her phenomenal Number One Sunday Times Bestseller, Mad Girl.
Ten years on from first writing about her own experiences of mental illness, Bryony Gordon still receives messages about the effects it has on people. Now perimenopausal and well into the next stage of her life, parenting an almost-adolescent, just what has that help - and that connection with other unwell people - taught Bryony about herself, and the society we live in? What has she learned, and why have her views on mental health changed so radically? After coming out the other side of the biggest trauma of our living memory - a global pandemic - existing in a state of perma-crisis has now become our new normal.
From burnout and binge eating, to living with fluctuating hormones and the endless battle to stay sober, Bryony begins to question whether she got mental illness wrong in the first place. Is it simply a chemical imbalance, or rather a normal response from your brain telling you that something isn't right? Mad Woman explores the most difficult of all the lesson she's learned over the last decade - that our notion of what makes a happy life is the very thing that's making us so sad.
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- h s walker
- 23-02-2024
Honest, touching, funny and entertaining
I really listened to this book by default. It was the free monthly, not my kind of book I thought but let’s give it a go.
LOVED IT. Bryony just says it as it is. She informs on mental health and also how debilitating the menopause can be. Many women, perhaps all, think we’re the only one going mad. There is a world of ‘me’ going mad and again Bryony breaks the taboo and opens the conversation. Brilliant, thank you, off to the GP to have the chat, hopefully I get lucky and they listen
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- Kornelia
- 12-03-2024
I love Bryony so really wanted to love it...but no
This book was lack energy and was very disconnected from her usual writing, I didn't feel like Bryony actually wanted to write this book. The book talked in great detail about her inner monologue of feeling too privileged to have a mental health problem or be struggling with the covid-19 pandemic, Since when did she advocate that mental health problems was only for a certain type of person (she interviewed prince Harry Ffs)? I couldn't wait for this story to finish.
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