Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo

192 reviews

tmchopra's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Child abuse

kellygom's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Mental illness, and Child abuse

codemasterpi's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, and Mental illness

Moderate: Self harm, Pandemic/Epidemic, Murder, Racism, Colonisation, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical trauma, War, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Suicide attempt

ncruz1's review

challenging hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Child abuse

hanlhs's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

best book i’ve read in a while. would recommend to anyone, whether they have c-ptsd or not! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Abandonment

emlev1995's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, Domestic abuse, and Child abuse

meganbrinson's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

So so so important. Really helped me understand my intellectualizing tendencies. Foo also does a great job situating trauma in a larger context. “Love begets love” really did it for me <3

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, and Child abuse

bchochst's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Mental illness, and Emotional abuse

rileybq's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Abandonment, and Mental illness

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Homophobia

fspikener's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Child abuse, Abandonment, and Emotional abuse