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 impact can be devastating.  In this book, we join Annie Cardone as she tells her vulnerable journey through menopause. She invites us into some of the most personal and humiliating mental health breakdowns she has endured, as she bravely shines a light on the massive chasm between what women need at this time of their lives and the support and care that is available to them. Even today, menopause is vastly misunderstood by medical professionals worldwide and research on the subject is dangerously underfunded.

This book, part memoir and part actionable advice, follows Annie through the story of her own life. We get to witness as she traces her journey back to the traumas of her childhood, and then follows these threads forward to learn how these defining moments impacted her mental health and menopause experience. We realise 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 too 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 millions of women who have been too humiliated to speak out.  Many lose their lives, but we tend not to hear about it.  The victims are deemed insane, and their suicides are glossed over in the news.

If you have a friend, daughter, sister, aunt, cousin, or mother you care about, you might want to pick up this book and then send it to them. It is time for the women who have raised and supported our families and who have made great and significant sacrifices to care for others to be understood and treated with compassion and empathy.  

Their contributions to our societies, workplaces, and culture need to be acknowledged because the world would not exist without them. Women need to be cared for with the respect, expertise and gentleness they deserve.

We do not have to suffer in silence.