{"id":280654,"date":"2026-01-12T09:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T09:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/280654\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T09:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T09:50:11","slug":"love-islands-dr-alex-george-on-adhd-grief-giving-up-booze-and-if-trying-to-be-normal-is-making-us-sick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/280654\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Island\u2019s Dr Alex George on ADHD, grief, giving up booze and if trying to be \u2018normal\u2019 is making us sick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nHe\u2019s gone from Love Island star to frontline healthcare worker during the pandemic and beyond. After his own struggles with bereavement, alcohol, depression, and diagnoses of ADHD and OCD, Dr Alex wants to redefine the meaning of \u2018normal\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dr Alex George. Photo: Olivia Spencer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/db0fc79b-dece-4db0-aaee-b5f37901f35c.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Dr Alex George. Photo: Olivia Spencer<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Are you normal? What is normal anyway? Is our idea of normal abnormally narrow? Can trying to be normal drive you mad? Is society normal? These are the kind of questions Dr Alex George explores in his new book Am I Normal?<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It\u2019s not a self-help book, but a \u201ca critical view of what normality is\u201d and whether \u201cbeing normal matters or not.\u201d He wants to know, \u201cIs it me or is it the world?\u201d His core message is simple: It should be normal not to be normal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He\u2019s gone from Love Island star to frontline healthcare worker during the pandemic and beyond. After his own&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,23,12,15,16,5,6796,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-280654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-latest-news-ticker","15":"tag-latestnews","16":"tag-main-news","17":"tag-mainnews","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-service-journalism","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-topstories","22":"tag-world","23":"tag-world-news","24":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115881510433674415","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}