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1.39k reviews for:
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
Daniel Maté, Gabor Maté
4.2 AVERAGE
1.39k reviews for:
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
Daniel Maté, Gabor Maté
4.2 AVERAGE
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
I love Gabor Mate’s writing! This is deeply reflective book about psychological issue that is deeply related how we need to regulate big emotion, that is surprisingly not surprised can cause physical pain.
informative
informative
medium-paced
Too psychological for me - I wanted practical advice and felt it was a slow dense read.
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
an interesting read about trauma and how our physical health is intimately related to our past experiences and mental wellbeing. I don’t know if I could have gotten through the print edition, the audiobook was A LOT. at times I found myself questioning things he would say, I think I’m going to have to spend some time on pubmed because I’m very intrigued
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
Informative but didn’t really tell me anything new or world changing. I get what the author was trying to say about positive worldview being healing and needing to be considered in terms of medical healing, but it often came across as “believe your way out of chronic illness” which is not true.
The occasional accent from the audiobook reader were distracting and I’m unclear if they were offensive or not??
The occasional accent from the audiobook reader were distracting and I’m unclear if they were offensive or not??
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Cancer, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Medical content
Moderate: Child abuse, Genocide, Violence, Grief, Colonisation, Pandemic/Epidemic
informative
slow-paced