Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo

194 reviews

avoticat's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad medium-paced

5.0

Such a fantastic read. I feel like this is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand more about cPTSD. It is a personal experience mixed in with academic evidence. It can be a tough, emotional read but it's well worth it. Highly recommend!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Physical abuse

This is about parental abuse, the culture around it that perpetuates it, the long-term effects of cPTSD, and struggling towards healing

tmchopra's review

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Child abuse

kellygom's review

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Mental illness, and Child abuse

codemasterpi's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, and Mental illness

Moderate: Self harm, Pandemic/Epidemic, Murder, Racism, Colonisation, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical trauma, War, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Suicide attempt

ncruz1's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Child abuse

hanlhs's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

best book i’ve read in a while. would recommend to anyone, whether they have c-ptsd or not! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Abandonment

emlev1995's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, Domestic abuse, and Child abuse

meganbrinson's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

So so so important. Really helped me understand my intellectualizing tendencies. Foo also does a great job situating trauma in a larger context. “Love begets love” really did it for me <3

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, and Child abuse

bchochst's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Mental illness, and Emotional abuse

geneius's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

WOW. wow wow WOW. this was fucking amazing. i listened to this as an audiobook (you’ll notice a trend for me, i’ve found i tend to enjoy nonfiction more as an audio format) and i’ve honestly never read anything like it. cathartic, sad, relatable, wonderful, i am so happy the author wrote this and my best friend recommended it to me (thank you hal <3). listening to stephanie discover herself in real time, i saw so much of myself in this book it was hard to listen to at points, and i cried a lot, but stephanie’s humor and voice made it a lot easier to get through. her writing style was amazing, too, with anecdotes intermingled with facts and research, and the audio clips of her actual therapy sessions. navigating cptsd is so fucking hard, and i’m so thankful more research and more books like this are coming out to make it easier. i have nothing bad to say about this book, and i would recommend this (in audio format for SURE) to everyone, regardless of your mental health status

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, and Child abuse