Title:
Born Mad
Author: Robyn Wheeler
Genre: Nonfiction; Self-Improvement
Paperback: 144 pages
Publisher: Balboa Press
Language: English
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SBN-13: 978-1452536408
BOOK SUMMARY:
Follow Robyn on her journey from fits of rage as an angry child,
blunders and setbacks as an adult in deep denial, to her quest for
awareness and enlightenment. Robyn takes you inside her deepest thoughts
and fears, as well as her chronic anger and thoughts of suicide. After
being diagnosed with a “bad state of mind” called dysthymia, Robyn
wrote Born Mad to help others who may be unaware that they might be
suffering from a low-grade chronic depression that will make l ife
difficult, ruin relationships, and contribute to a negative and
hopeless outlook on life. Born Mad includes symptoms of dysthymia and
copies strategies, as well as the story of how Robyn came to believe in
God, defeat chronic anger, and become the person she was meant to be.
Read about her courage and determination to be happy and how her life
has changed after having a “brain transplant.” If you or someone you
know suffers from constant mood swings, angry thoughts, and extreme
worry or anxiety, Born Mad might shed light on the reasons why and how
to fight your way through to hope, peace and happiness.
REVIEW:
Robyn Wheeler felt her childhood was full of anger. Not anger
directly because of outside influences; in fact, she said she had a
happy childhood. It was an anger within. It was as if she had no
control over it and it eventually had a name – dysthmia. To back up,
she recollects there were times she was the brunt of many practical
jokes and later hearing her parents argue. The parents ended up
splitting up but she says she was happy it happened because it was
better than hearing screaming all the time. “As a child of divorce,”
she says, “I much preferred shuttling back and forth between two houses
than listening ot the bickering. If two adults can’t get along, it
isn’t healthy for their kids to witness this.”
She later tells us that because of all the bickering, it affected
her throughout her own marriage and it went on for many many years.
Throughout her adult life, she found herself cowering when someone
yelled at her. People would tell her she had a bad attitude and that
no one enjoyed being around her. I mean think about it, would you want
to be around someone who was negative all the time or someone who
smiled and laughed and made you feel good to be around them? “I often
wonder why I had any friends,” she wrote. “I couldn’t have been fun to
be around. I wasn’t someone I wanted to be around, so how could I
expect others to want to be around me?”
Robyn goes on to tell us about different instances in her life which
included childhood tantrums and adult denial. She didn’t see what
others saw nor did she care what they thought. Her intentions on
telling us this back story was in the hopes of helping others who may be
behaving in a similar way and have no idea why.
Born Mad was written for those who feel angry all the time and have no reason why nor do they have any idea on how to snap out of it.
I chose this book to review mainly because I do have someone in my
life who is constantly not happy with the world and I wondered if, after
reading Robyn’s story, I would come away with some hope that this
person might get some help. I will definitely be passing this book down
to him/her.
I will say that after finishing the book, I came away with a new
knowledge of a disease that could happen to anyone. If you know someone
who is habitually angry all the time, you’ve definitely got to check
out
Born Mad by Robyn Wheeler. Read her story of how she beat
the demons that were plaguing her whole being and became the person she
truly wanted to be.
