I'm just trying to give people another word, another language, another way to look at our mental states, because not everything can be solved with therapy and a pill.
You don't often hear of women having midlife crises. It seems to be more a male thing. While Melanie Gideon may be hesitant to call her experience a midlife crisis, those who have been through one will recognize the searing questions and self-doubt that characterize such episodes. Gideon's determination to emerge stronger on the other side is told in her book "The Slippery Year."
I'm just trying to give people another word, another language, another way to look at our mental states, because not everything can be solved with therapy and a pill.
