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siobhanjor's review against another edition
Minor: Death, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Terminal illness, Cancer, and Chronic illness
katharina90's review against another edition
3.5
A lot of the evidence is anecdotal, but I found the book informative and I appreciated the food for thought it provides.
"Research has suggested for decades that women are more prone to develop breast cancer if their childhoods were characterized by emotional disconnection from their parents or other disturbances in their upbringing, if they tend to repress emotions, particularly anger, if they lack nurturing social relationships in adulthood and if they are the altruistic, compulsively caregiving types."
Moderate: Addiction, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, and Domestic abuse
faithaforman's review
3.75
Moderate: Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Drug abuse, Medical content, Medical trauma, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Alcoholism, Mental illness, Sexual assault, and Terminal illness
Minor: Infidelity, Rape, Abandonment, Physical abuse, and Grief
This book may awaken fear/anxiety regarding the hypothesis proposed and one's own handling of stress. Be sure you are in a relatively stable mental health condition before embarking to avoid emotional crisis.lou_o_donnell's review
4.0
Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Classism, Chronic illness, Excrement, Mental illness, Self harm, Terminal illness, Cancer, Child abuse, Colonisation, Death of parent, Infidelity, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, Drug use, Eating disorder, Medical content, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Pedophilia, and Sexual violence
waybeyondblue's review against another edition
3.5
Moderate: Chronic illness, Mental illness, Cancer, Medical content, and Terminal illness
00phantom's review against another edition
It was not a very kind book. Basically blamed people for their illnesses (cancer and heart disease and other serious illnesses) and then offered no hope or actionable information. So I stopped reading it.
Moderate: Ableism, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Terminal illness