Reviews tagging 'Self harm'

It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle by Mark Wolynn

4 reviews

patydenisse's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

It’s a great book, I feel like it’s a must for people who’ve tried it all, podcasts, books, self care articles, etc. 
I like that you have to write and think about your past and your family. 
I think I’ve actually became closer to my parents while and after reading this book, it helped me a lot just to change a little bit my perspective. 
I don’t give it 5 stars just because I felt there were times where the book was very repetitive and used a lot of examples of patients that felt like I had read them before or very similar. 
It has a lot of trigger warnings, so I would definitely suggest reading this when you feel ok to do some self exploring and revisit trauma, look out for yourself.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Antisemitism, Grief, Car accident, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Cultural appropriation, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, and Classism

andreisa12's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective relaxing medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Genocide, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, and Murder

glassdanse's review against another edition

I know it has been a hot minute since I took any kind of bio class, but the science in this book is just utter bunk. I used “molecular biology of the cell” (5th ed.) by alberts et al as a reference text to make sure I wasn't just misinterpreting what he was writing. at best, wolynn's writing on dna, heritability, and epigenetics is just really poor but I think I'm being generous here.

the name rachel yehuda rang some bells, and I think it was because I had read something on a 2015 study she did. it looked at approx 30 holocaust survivors, and approx 20 post-war descendants. you do not need to be a statistical wizard to understand that to make large scale claims off of such a tiny study is a major flaw of any study, to say nothing of how epigenetic changes across generations should not be studied in parent / child sets so even the methodology has cause for concern. I believe this study only looked at a small number of genes too, further adding to the statistical muddiness. epigenetic trauma proponents also fail to explain the actual mechanisms such a process would use or how this all fits into the current understanding

I mention so much since the scientific hypothesis of this book seems to hinge so much of itself on yehuda's work, although it fails to mention any of the criticisms laid against her work, nor does it offer any alternative view points.

plus, this study does not work to separate out the influence of family or cultural stories, and experiences, or other health conditions. that's just sloppy. sister studies (by other scientists) come with similar problems.

there were other serious problems in the few pages I read, but this was the most glaring.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

tdubs15's review against another edition

While I understand the general premise and message of the book, it was a little disheartening to see that a lot of people who have s**cidal thoughts/ideation magically didn't feel that way when they realized that someone in their past actually felt that way. I thought the past would be acknowledged and validated but that there would be coping mechanisms and advice given to help. Instead, it felt more like a series of short stories/anecdotes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Murder