Moody bitches the truth about the drugs you're taking, the sleep you're missing, the sex you're not having, and what's really making you feel crazy
"As women, we learn from an early age that our moods are a problem. To succeed in life, we are told, we must have it all under control: we have to tamp down our inherent shifts in favor of a more static way of being. But our bodies are wiser than we imagine. Moods are not an annoyance to be stu...
| Main Author: | Holland, Julie, 1965- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Penguin Press,
2015.
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| Summary: |
"As women, we learn from an early age that our moods are a problem. To succeed in life, we are told, we must have it all under control: we have to tamp down our inherent shifts in favor of a more static way of being. But our bodies are wiser than we imagine. Moods are not an annoyance to be stuffed away, they are a finely-tuned feedback system that can tell us how best to manage our lives. Our changing moods let us know when our bodies are primed to tackle different challenges and when we should be alert to developing problems. They help us select the right tool for each of our many jobs. If we deny our emotionality, we deny the breadth of our talents. With the right care of our inherently dynamic bodies, we can master our moods to avail ourselves of this great natural strength. Yet millions of American women are medicating away their emotions because our culture says that moodiness is a problem to be fixed. Over-prescribed medications can have devastating consequences for women in many areas of our lives--and even if we don't pop a pill, women everywhere are numbing their emotions with food, alcohol, and a host of addictive behaviors that deny the wisdom of our bodies and keep us from addressing the real issues that we face. Here, Dr. Julie Holland shares a better way."--From publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: |
420 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-405) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781594205804 1594205809 |
| Author Notes: |
Julie Holland graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University Medical School. She has been a psychiatrist in private practice since 1996. She majored in the Biological Basis of Behavior at the University of Pennsylvania and received her M.D. in 1992 from Temple University School of Medicine. At Mount Sinai Medical Center, she completed a residency program in psychiatry, where she created a research project that treated schizophrenics with a new medication. In 1994, she received the Outstanding Resident Award from the National Institute of Mental Health. From 1996 until 2005 she worked weekends running Bellevue Hospital's psychiatric emergency room, and she's written an autobiography of this time entitled "Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych ER". She also provides expert testimony and forensic consultation on a range of drug related behavior and phenomena with a focus on PCP and MDMA. (Bowker Author Biography) |