Reviews tagging 'Panic attacks/disorders'

The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabor Maté

4 reviews

noonanjohnc's review against another edition

challenging dark informative slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Cancer, Deportation, Infertility, Gaslighting, Homophobia, Ableism, Medical content, Mental illness, Pandemic/Epidemic, Addiction, Child death, Child abuse, Classism, Colonisation, Death, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Chronic illness, Death of parent, and Confinement

toephia's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

Informative, dense, and to-the-point; addresses trauma’s impact on the individual body + the collective; analysis of current Western medical practices; discussion of society and capitalism as source of mass trauma. Empowering and compassionate read. HIGHLY RECOMMEND! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Self harm, Medical content, Pregnancy, Chronic illness, Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Drug abuse, Racism, and Panic attacks/disorders

emmawall's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Medical trauma, Medical content, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Death, Drug use, Pandemic/Epidemic, Suicide, Chronic illness, Grief, Cancer, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and War

faduma's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Abandonment, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Grief, Medical trauma, Alcohol, Homophobia, Medical content, Pedophilia, Bullying, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Violence