Dr. Alex George

I want it to come with me on my journey of life.

And those have lost their parents.

I mean, if you lose your mother, is there going to be a day you wake up and go, I'm cool.

Mom died.

I'm actually over it now.

It's such a strange thing.

When I say that, you're probably listening and thinking,

an odd thing to say but that's what society is saying to you society says to you that one day you should get up and be completely over the fact your mother is dead and you should get on with life as if it's never happened and that is not normal and that these are the situations i come to it's like we beat ourselves up and we say that we're sick and we even get diagnosed as sick when we can't get over someone dying and yet the problem is isn't you it's the bloody system it's a society

And those things make people sick, and people lose their lives because of these ideas of normality, and that is why it matters.

I think a lot of people have been asking me, when I said I'd be writing this book about normality, what is normal?

Does it really matter?

What even is normal anyway?

And I think in three years I spent writing this book, which actually is not a normal amount of time to spend.

It's quite a long time to spend.

The reason I took so long was, quite frankly, it's the most painful thing I've ever done professionally, and perhaps even one of the most painful personal things I've ever done.

That's cost me a lot of money, that book, because I have to do a lot of therapy to write it.

It's very revealing.

It's definitely the most revealing book I've ever written, the most insight I'll ever share, I think, into my own life and experiences.

But I think it was important to do that.

And I think the conclusion I came to, what is important in the realms of normality, is that normal only matters when it creates reality.