A Really Good Day, Ayelet Waldman
A Really Good Day, Ayelet Waldman
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A Really Good Day
How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life

Author: Ayelet Waldman

Narrator: Ayelet Waldman

Unabridged: 7 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/10/2017


Synopsis

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 onceinfamous 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.

About Ayelet Waldman

Ayelet Waldman is the author of the memoir, A Really Good Day, as well as of novels including Love and Treasure, Red Hook Road, and Love and Other Impossible Pursuits. She is the editor of Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women's Prisons, and with Michael Chabon, of Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation and Fight of the Century.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ilana (illi69) on April 28, 2022

An update: I read this book, and wrote the bulk of this review in 2017 shortly after its release. It gave me a lot to think about. I felt strongly that microdosing might be a viable solution for me, as I have been treatment resistant for the 20 years since I've been diagnosed with bipolar disorder,......more

Goodreads review by Kristin on September 16, 2016

Take an over-medicated, moody, middle-aged mother of four, add a month of experimental microdosing with LSD and it makes for A Really Good Day by Ayelet Waldman. This mesmerizing memoir of mental exploration tackles the taboo topic of drug use in our society, the frightening rise of prescription pil......more

Goodreads review by Esil on May 12, 2017

I think what I liked most about A Really Good Day is pretty idiosyncratic, but I definitely liked this one – especially as an audio. Ayelet Waldman has spent much of her life going up and down in mood. This affects her relationship with her husband author Michael Chabon, her interactions with her fo......more

Goodreads review by Viv on June 01, 2017

This book is a very readable and occasionally very funny account of the author's month long experiment with microdosing with LSD in an attempt to alleviate her mood swings (originally diagnosed as bipolar and later as PMDD). Along the way, she delves into the history of LSD, research into its benefi......more