Reviews - Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

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Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

For all but the last essay: this was so wonderfully written, so strong, and so crazy. I loved it so much.

For the last essay, I feel deeply conflicted. As a disabled, chronically ill person, it was really hard and weird to hear an experience where pushing past her boundaries saved her. It’s weird. It challenges a lot of things that I know to be true for myself.

It almost makes me not want to recommend this book to my friends who are chronically ill. I know that concussion recovery is not the same as chronic illness, but it is all the same really, really trippy reading about her experience. I am deeply happy she recovered, don’t get me wrong. I’m glad people are having good experiences with that doctor.

It’s really hard to listen to that book today in 2023 when millions of long covid patients are being told to just push themselves, which invariably makes things worse.

It’s weird. It’s hard. I have deeply complicated feelings.