Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

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

203 reviews

izarahiqb's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

how does one speak about this book? i need to gather my thoughts. it’s definitely a lot better than the body keeps the score. 

“it’s not the fights that matter. it’s the repairs” i love this way of reframing conflict. 

there’s so many parts i’ve had to sit back and reflect on but for now i’ll just give that line. 

so vulnerable and informative yet heartbreaking in less than 300 pages 
i just wish i had a physical copy (which i will be purchasing) so i could add in my notes. very validating. love the tools she mentioned to help people in similar positions or on their own healing journey. love that she got the help she needed! i might be biased for giving it 5 stars given it’s my area of interest but it was so good! i’d recommend to anyone and everyone just to see a refreshing yet blunt perspective 

full review may be written once i have a copy of my own 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Pandemic/Epidemic, Violence, Colonisation, Child abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Abandonment, Grief, and Racism

madlyreading's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

endlessmurmur's review against another edition

emotional funny informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Violence, Mental illness, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Self harm

rhubarbpi3's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

This book was so well written. I feel like it’s hard to find people who are curious about themselves and the world in the same way as Foo, and I really appreciated her authorial voice and the content which she wrote about. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Abandonment, Child abuse, Sexism, Pandemic/Epidemic, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

suereadsslow's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.75

It is a very good memoir. In the end I‘ve got a little emotional. It is not fully 5 stars because sometimes I‘ve got personally confused about the chronological timeline of her healing process. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Child abuse, and Physical abuse

Minor: Suicide

samcsmith's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, Death, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, War, Pandemic/Epidemic, Physical abuse, Alcohol, and Panic attacks/disorders

adelle's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Self harm, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

jburkespraker's review

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

Not sure what to add as a trigger warning because there a so many. I loved the short chapters and the way she pulls the audio recordings in at the end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Genocide, Violence, Suicide, Abandonment, Car accident, Physical abuse, Self harm, Grief, Racism, Child abuse, Death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, and Death of parent

frenchpants's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Gaslighting, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

jayasilog's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

i cried and i cried and i cried, so grateful to the author for being able to share her story and perspective especially as a seasian woman under capitalism!!!! so good!!!! i read the body keeps the score but this was a book that i actually felt like i learned and loved bc i felt seen!!

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Content Warnings

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