{"product_id":"mad-woman-the-hotly-anticipated-followup-to-lifechanging-bestseller-mad-girl-9781035408689","title":"Mad Woman: The hotly anticipated follow-up to  lifechanging bestseller, MAD GIRL","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003eBryony Gordon's book \"Mad Woman\" explores the impact of mental illness on her life and questions whether it is a normal response from the brain or a chemical imbalance. She founded the mental health charity, Mental Health Mates, which has become a vast online community. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 320 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 15 February 2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Headline Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA deeply reassuring essential read\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSunday Independent\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVisceral and honest\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTelegraph\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBryony Gordon is a terrific, compassionate writer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth Day\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBryony writes with such entertaining and brazen candour about mental illness...she really helps people tackle their own stuff. Her writing has helped me before, and this will be another hit\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMatt Haig\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA startlingly candid book\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDaily Mail\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGordon injects lightness into the darkness as she recounts her relapse into OCD and subsequent steps to recovery\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRed Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE HOTLY ANTICIPATED FOLLOW-UP TO SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*, MAD GIRL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat if our notion of what makes us happy is the very thing that's making us so sad?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTen years on from first writing about her own experiences of mental illness, Bryony Gordon still receives messages about the effect 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMad Woman explores the most difficult of all the lessons she's learned over the last decade - that our notion of what makes us happy is the very thing that's making us so sad.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMad Woman explores the most difficult of all the lessons she's learned over the last decade - that our notion of what makes us happy is the very thing that's making us so sad.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom 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. 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