I Was Wounded… and Slightly Feral

It is exactly midnight, I am editing *Notes From a Certified Madwoman*, and I have finally realized something: Maybe I was never crazy. Maybe I was wounded, dysregulated, surviving, and just slightly feral. In this solo episode of **Midnight Menopausal Meanderings**, I talk about what happens when trauma is mistaken for personality, survival responses are reduced to mental illness, and the context of a person’s life disappears beneath the diagnosis. This is not an argument against therapy, psychiatry, medication, recovery, or mental health treatment. Those things save lives, including mine. It is an invitation to ask a fuller question. Not only: **What is wrong with you?** But also: **What happened to you?** I also share why some details were intentionally left out of my book, why telling the whole truth can sometimes bring consequences from the very people who benefited from your silence, and why this book is not an attempt to explain or defend myself. It is an exploration of what happens when we forget that context matters. Because trauma may explain behavior without excusing harm. Because a diagnosis may describe symptoms without telling the whole story. And because sometimes the woman everyone called crazy was carrying more than one nervous system should ever have had to carry alone. **Notes From a Certified Madwoman** is coming Fall 2026. Welcome to the edge. www.lisalacy.com