A Really Good Day

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How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage and My Life

By Ayelet Waldman

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A Really Good Day by Ayelet Waldman is a memoir that explores the author's month-long personal experiment with microdosing LSD to manage her mood and enhance her life. Through candid reflections, Waldman shares her experiences with mental health, relationships, and the impact of this unconventional treatment on her daily life. Her narrative combines personal anecdotes with a broader discussion on the history and science of psychedelics.
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This book may appeal to you if you're interested in personal journeys and explorations into mental health. Ayelet Waldman provides an authentic and candid look at her experiment with microdosing LSD to manage her mood disorder. Her narrative is engaging and often humorous, making it a compelling read for those curious about alternative approaches to well-being.

A Really Good Day

A revealing, courageous, fascinating, and funny account of the author's experiment with microdoses of LSD in an effort to treat a debilitating mood disorder, of her quest to understand a misunderstood drug, and of her search for a really good day.

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'Ayelet Waldman is fearless' - Rebecca Solnit

'Relentlessly honest and surprisingly funny' - Washington Post

'Genuinely brave and human' - New York Times

'Wildly brilliant' - Elle

The true story of how a renowned writer's struggle with mood storms led her to try a remedy as drastic as it is forbidden: microdoses of LSD. Her fascinating journey provides a window into one family and the complex world of a once-infamous drug seen through new eyes.

When a small vial arrives in her mailbox from 'Lewis Carroll,' Ayelet Waldman is ready to try anything. Her depression has become intolerable, severe and unmanageable; medication has failed to make a difference.

Married with four children and a robust career, she 'should' be happy, but instead her family and her work are suffering at the mercy of her mood disorder. So she opens the vial, places two drops on her tongue, and becomes part of a burgeoning underground group of scientists and civilians successfully using therapeutic microdoses of LSD.

As Waldman charts her experience over the course of a month, during which she achieved a newfound feeling of serenity, she also explores the history and mythology of LSD, the cutting-edge research into the drug, and the byzantine policies that control it.

Drawing on her experience as a federal public defender, and as the mother of teenagers, and her research into the therapeutic value of psychedelics, Waldman has produced a book that is candid, revealing and completely enthralling.

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A Really Good Day by Ayelet Waldman has been described as an engaging and insightful personal account of microdosing LSD to improve mental health. Reviews praise the book for its honesty, humour, and educational value, highlighting Waldman's bravery in addressing taboo subjects. The narrative blends personal anecdotes with broader discussions on marriage, mental health, and drug policy, creating an entertaining and thought-provoking read.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781472152893

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 May 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Corsair

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 126.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 200g

Pages: 256

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Ayelet Waldman Biography & Memoir Mindset & Self Help New Year, New You Non-Fiction Personal Development Philosophy & Psychology Self-Help & Personal Development

About the Author

AYELET WALDMAN is the author of the novels Love and Treasure, Red Hook Road, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, and Daughter's Keeper, as well as of the essay collection Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace, and the Mommy-Track Mystery series. She was a federal public defender and taught a course on the legal implications of the War on Drugs at the UC Berkeley law school. She lives in Berkeley, California, with her husband, Michael Chabon, and their four children.