Hormonal: How Hormones Drive Desire, Shape Relationships, and Make Us Wiser

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It wasn’t quite embarrassment that made me leg it – he did his best to make it a non- thing; a mini- celebration, even – but in my core I felt uncomfortable. Power through knowledge is precisely what she sets out to give the readers in this exploration into the myriad ways the body affects the mind.

It was after a particularly bad period build- up one month, which felt like a week of tears-from-nowhere, overeating and spending too many evenings lying on my front in an existential torpor, that I went to my GP. We’re talking more about the tyranny of ideals around birth control, conception, pregnancy and women’s experiences of giving birth. That classic British coastal perfume, thick with sun- roasted kelp and old deep- fat- fryer oil, took the nausea that seemed to come with these sharp churns to another level. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. I’m a cis woman who learned so much about how I interpret my own mind and pain and mental health from this book, but I think that it does the book a disservice to not at least acknowledge in the beginning that this is about cis women only.Eleanor Morgan's "Hormonal" is "a conversation about women's bodies, mental health and why we need to be heard".

As Morgan argues, we've gotten better at talking about mental health, but we still shy away from discussing periods, miscarriage, endometriosis and menopause. Essential reading for anyone with, or living closely with someone who experiences, a menstrual cycle. I picked Hormonal: A Conversation About Women's Bodies, Mental Health and Why We Need to Be Heard up in the library without realising that I'd read another book by Eleanor Morgan in 2018: Anxiety for Beginners: A Personal Investigation.I particularly enjoyed the Ancient Greek's theories about how women's bodies work, although was also locked in a full-body cringe throughout that chapter.

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) show that childhood trauma, neglect and structural oppressions 'come out' in later life not just in the form of mental distress like anxiety or depression, but in chronic physical inflammation, bodies stuck in high alert mode.That aside, Morgan covers a lot of ground on medical sexism, gendered mental health diagnoses, reproductive illness, and wellness, inevitably rather quickly.