Out of Her Mind: How We Are Failing Women's Mental Health and What Must Change

For centuries so called difficult women have been labelled as hysterical and out of their minds. Today they wait longer for health diagnoses, often being told its all in their heads. Although healthcare systems are overburdened, why are women the first to feel the effects of this? Why is it so hard for women to find the kind of help they need? Why is no one listening to them? And why have so many lost faith in mental healthcare? Drawing on the lived experiences of women, alongside expert commentators, recent history, current events, and her own personal and professional experience, Dr Linda Gask explores womens mental healthcare today. In doing so she confronts her role as a psychiatrist, recalling experiences treating women and as a woman who has received mental healthcare, illustrating the dire need for more change, faster. Women cant all be out of their minds.