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

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Just like with all scientific studies, these findings should be taken with a grain of salt considering the sample sizes and locations where they took place. We’re talking more about the tyranny of ideals around birth control, conception, pregnancy and women’s experiences of giving birth. The fear around having a smear test is not just about whether it will hurt when the speculum is put inside us, it is about how we feel our bodies will be perceived; whether our genitals look or smell ‘right’, for example. Morgan rigorously investigates the modern landscape of women and health, from contraception to PMS, anxiety and depression, examining the relationship between our bodies and what goes on inside them over the course of our reproductive lives, our biochemistry, and our psychological wellbeing.

I have realised quite how little I remembered from my school education and felt quite ashamed by it. I would have preferred more scientific talk about hormones and their outcomes on our body and behavior, but she did talk a bit about the main hormones in one chapter. As the tone of this review probably suggests, my current attitude to mental health is relevant to how I received Hormonal: A Conversation About Women's Bodies, Mental Health and Why We Need to Be Heard. She explores how problems in the mind like depression, anxiety or any other mental health problem, as well as neurological illnesses, so often feel like an invasion of SELF.

Girls and women need to be more informed and better taught about what we know about our menstral cycles and the history women we've been through and the demoralisation we go through when our healthcare professionals don't listen to us and we've been asking/begging for so long to be referred to a gynecologist. It was so quiet in that moment, apart from the pitiful cawing of seagulls (why do they always sound so desperate? At some point after that, in my ongoing quest for peace of mind, I started thinking about my menstrual health as part of my mental health. In fact, not to spoil the results, we know very little to why we experience pain around menstruation. There are also certain studies and findings provided about men’s behaviours and “hormonal intelligence” and how those interact with female hormonal intelligence.

HORMONAL explores everything from contraception to PMS, in relation to anxiety, depression and taboos about hysteria and the ‘hormonal’ woman.Groundbreaking and counter-intuitive, HORMONAL will empower women everywhere to embrace their biology.

The author kept mentioning how we need to "take back" our hormonal intelligence, change the story, empower ourselves, but I consistently failed to see how this was being suggested -- especially when it all fell back on more baby talk. The reason many clinicians reject the BPD diagnosis, and why there is such a growing network of 'survivors' is because evidence shows that around 80 percent of people diagnosed with BPD remember: overwhelmingly applied to women - have a history of trauma.If you are looking for a book that discusses what hormones actually do and how they may have the potential to sway our behaviour, you're better off reading a book about biology, where facts are presented, and not opinions disguised to look like scientific evidence. I felt she was simply validating her condescending male colleagues' point (about women being "hormonal") by behaving in the exact same manner one would expect of a "hormonal" female: overly emotional and not in the least bit credible.

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.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.