Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

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

200 reviews

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

geneius's review

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

WOW. wow wow WOW. this was fucking amazing. i listened to this as an audiobook (you’ll notice a trend for me, i’ve found i tend to enjoy nonfiction more as an audio format) and i’ve honestly never read anything like it. cathartic, sad, relatable, wonderful, i am so happy the author wrote this and my best friend recommended it to me (thank you hal <3). listening to stephanie discover herself in real time, i saw so much of myself in this book it was hard to listen to at points, and i cried a lot, but stephanie’s humor and voice made it a lot easier to get through. her writing style was amazing, too, with anecdotes intermingled with facts and research, and the audio clips of her actual therapy sessions. navigating cptsd is so fucking hard, and i’m so thankful more research and more books like this are coming out to make it easier. i have nothing bad to say about this book, and i would recommend this (in audio format for SURE) to everyone, regardless of your mental health status

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Content Warnings

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

rocio07's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

caitlino98's review against another edition

challenging dark informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, and Child abuse