Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

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

55 reviews

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

thoughtsfromtheafro's review

dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

3.75

This was a fascinating read as it relates to CPTSD; there aren’t always many books about it out there. The narrative of the author’s experience(s) with her parents needs countless content warnings. The latter part of the book where she details her therapy modalities and audio clips are included is quite helpful for one’s own reflection and consideration in types of healing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Physical abuse, Abandonment, Domestic abuse, Suicide attempt, and Emotional abuse

gkweav615's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Beautiful prose and so informative on such a misunderstood topic. I felt seen, and Foo put words to feelings I could describe. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Child abuse, and Violence

cgreenstein's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

4.75

This was incredibly powerful and hopeful and honest. I listened to it as an audiobook, which meant I got to hear excerpts from the actual therapy session recordings in the final third of the book, and I thought that was something that really enhanced the book-- you could hear her old self and contrast that with the current self who is now writing about the old self. At any rate, this book is evidence that the author is incredibly strong and incredibly compassionate, and I can see why the buzz around this book was so fervent. It's deserved.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic

dreamer626's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Mental illness, Abandonment, Toxic relationship, and Suicide attempt

eliya's review

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

heartbreakingly raw and hard to listen to at points. stephanie foo shares some truly horrifying memories.

fascinating approaches to CPTSD

• some approaches i’m familiar with, some i’ve only day-dreamed about haha. 
• would love to approach conversation in a Nathan Fielder’s “the rehearsal” way lol. gave me some sold things to bring to my therapist when i have one. made me reconsider the way i interact in conversations. 

very informative, kept coming back to the body and physiological responses to trauma, as the title suggests.

• lots of information regarding generational trauma and how it effects people of color. 
• i was particularly intrigued by the
  rat study about generational trauma

cringy / cheesy at some points, as is the nature with healing books. some eyeroll moments where the author acknowledges very briefly but very obviously obligatorily her class privileges to be able to access this type of care. ultimately helpful for me as a reader, though, to see what type of healing is possible (?) even though it definitely feels out of reach rn. 

truly moving and hopeful.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment and Child abuse

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Suicide attempt, Xenophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, and Grief

Minor: Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, War, Body shaming, Sexism, Pandemic/Epidemic, Fatphobia, and Medical trauma

roreadsbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Suicide attempt, and Suicide

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic

dianewhitley's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Suicide attempt, Sexism, Racism, and Toxic relationship

baileeliz_'s review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

i don’t rate memoirs typically so i won’t give a star rating, but this is possibly the most important book i’ve read on CPTSD and highly encourage anyone who has this diagnosis to read it if they are able. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Racism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

casall64's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

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