MENOPAUSE mental health the silent killer

One woman’s brave retelling of her own menopause journey, reveals frightening truths about our medical systems that could affect any woman you know.

Menopause is a challenging time for most women and in some cases, its effects can be devastating.  In this book, we join Annie Cardone as she tells her own vulnerable story of her journey through the process of menopause. She invites us into some of the most personal and humiliating moments that she has endured, as she bravely shines a light on the massive chasm that exists between what women need at this time of their lives and the support and care that is actually available to them. Even today, menopause is vastly misunderstood by medical professionals (on both sides of the Atlantic) and research of the subject is embarrassingly underfunded.

This book, which is part memoir and part actionable advice, follows Annie through the story of her own life. We get to witness as she traces her journey all the way back to the traumas of her youth and to then follow these threads forward to learn how these defining moments impacted her mental health and menopause experience. We learn just how deeply our hormones and mental health are connected. And we witness how easily and how often women are misdiagnosed and the potentially disastrous outcomes that can follow.

This is a brave and vulnerable story that is, all to often, kept in the shadows of secrecy. Women have felt shame for far too long about this perfectly normal transition in their lives. 

Annie’s story is not singular, it is the tale of many, many women who have been too humiliated to speak out and too unsupported to heal properly. If you have a daughter, a sister, an aunt or a mother in your life that you care about, you might want to pick up this book and have a read. It’s time for the women who have raised and supported our families and who have made great and important contributions to our societies, workplaces and culture to finally be cared for with the respect, expertise and gentleness they deserve.