Female Brain Gone Insane: An Emergency Guide For Women Who Feel Like They Are Falling Apart Paperback – Illustrated, October 1, 2009

About 18 years ago I entered Hell, also known as Perimenopause. It is not hell for every woman, but it is hell for enough women. This book is a pioneering book in my opinion. I went from 39 years old to crazy seemingly overnight. Then, somehow when no doctor or specialist or anyone knew anything; some way, I don't remember how, I found Mia Lundin. She held my hand over the phone.....sort of speak. Back then she lived in California and I in Florida. Her recommendations got me on the road to survive this thing. Gave me an idea what was happening and ....saved my life. Literally. I was completely ignorant about " The change", anger became rage, fear became anxiety, sadness became depression with homicidal and suicidal ideations....I called it an internal Holocaust. Mia Lundin was ahead of her time. This is my seventh book, because everytime I buy one I give it away to any young woman I meet or work with, as I wished someone had done it for me before I turned 39.Female Brain Gone Insane might not be the be all end all on the female hormonal insanity that the ovaries grand finally can be, but it is,in my opinion a phenomenal starting point. And for some women it offers all the guidance they will need to travel this transitional journey with dignity and some sanity. I'm postmenopausal now, but the hormones are on a different stage of settling down. Of finding their new normal....it takes time....and so I find myself reaching out for Mia's book one more time to help me thru this phase, cause the medical industry it is just catching on......shame on them. Too many women have gone thru tremendous pain of every type you can imagine, cause hormonal imbalance due to the ovaries grand finally it's not even taught in med school. But the world is waking up, and the topic is hot in podcasts and social media, cause a lot of women are screaming for help, and it's getting podcasters a lot of views also known as money.I am so thankful that informed newer and future generations of women won't have to go thru the hell women of the long ago past, and not so long ago as me, went thru.They will not have to suffer thru it, if they choose to stay informed. Thank you Mia.

This book really helped me to understand what was going on in my body when I felt so tired and sick during PMS after I weaned my baby. I would really recommend reading it! It explains different scenarios of various women and it's helpful to see that others are having similar symptoms and to read about the biological causes of them. It makes you feel relieved that you can be your normal self again soon. One thing- you might not need to take the risk of hormone therapy in order to get better. I didn't want to, because there is breast cancer in my family. For a few years before I had my second child, I took Chasteberry (Vitex) once a day. I felt a million times better- it helps your body produce more progesterone. Lately it hasn't been working though. Good luck!UPDATE: I just learned in the health food store today that there are two types of Vitex. One is the "fruit" and it doesn't work for women's issues. That's the one I bought by accident after I had my second child and that's why it wasn't working! The second type is the "extract"- it should say what % of Agnuside is in it. THAT one is a miracle. There are tons of studies on it. It even healed the proliferation of uterine tissue in one study. So, voila! Hope it helps you. You can take it for as long as you want according to a book by a scientist (unlike what some websites say). I am going to try it again because it totally helped me before.In the past few months I tried a prescription of natural progesterone pills (from the compounding pharmacy) but it made me feel super depressed and also hurt my bladder badly.UPDATE 6/2011 Beware- don't eat the 30% protein diet that this book recommends. It will make you so sick! It gave me a horrible stomachache that lasted every time I ate for months. Read "The China Study." The scientist who wrote it did experiments on rats. He was able to turn cancer on and off by changing the rats' diet from 5% animal protein to 20% animal protein. Whenever he decreased their diet to 5% the cancer stopped growing. When he raised it to 20% it came back full force. He could feed the rats tons of toxic chemicals but if they were on the 5% protein diet they never got cancer. Also he explains about female hormones. They are too high in western women because of animal-based diets. You can decrease your estrogen to half (and therefore not have such horrible female symptoms) by eating a plant-based diet. You don't need to take risky hormones!

Thank God for this book. At age 42 I crashed into perimenopause and had no idea what was happening to me. After seeing several doctors who all told me everything was "all in my head" and that I needed to start a regimen of anti-depressants and anti-anxiety meds, I finally went to see my gynecologist who told me I was in peri and put me on birth control pills. At first, they worked like a champ, but after a few months the bottom fell out again and I slipped back down the rabbit hole. Out of desperation I searched for an answer and came across this book. Ordering it was one of the best decisions I ever made. Mia explains everything, why it's happening and how to fix it through the use of bio-identical hormone replacement therapy and neurotransmitter repair. My only complaint is that I personally felt she gave a bit of an impression that menopausal issues can be resolved in a matter of weeks (but that was just my personal interpretation). After a lot more research and talking to other women on BHRT, I've realized this is a long, slow process full of a lot of bad days, but eventually, sometimes minute-by-minute, the good times start to kick in and you slowly but surely begin to climb out of the hole. Hormone production declines over years so it can't be fixed overnight. But it's an excellent read and you will come to understand that it's not just you and that you are definitely not alone.