Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk

94 reviews

saskia_ej's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Addiction, Alcohol, Medical content, Grief, Incest, Sexual assault, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Pandemic/Epidemic, Abandonment, Domestic abuse, Car accident, Child abuse, Death, Sexual harassment, Pedophilia, Infidelity, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Rape, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Blood, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Suicide attempt, and Violence

julesadventurezone's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Car accident, Incest, and Violence

Moderate: Bullying, Alcohol, Child death, Rape, Medical trauma, Xenophobia, Toxic relationship, Self harm, Pedophilia, Medical content, Alcoholism, Drug use, Addiction, Forced institutionalization, War, Death of parent, Ableism, Domestic abuse, Abandonment, Eating disorder, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Mental illness, Grief, Emotional abuse, Drug abuse, Death, and Chronic illness

Minor: Vomit, Suicide attempt, Infidelity, Islamophobia, Racial slurs, Suicidal thoughts, Religious bigotry, and Suicide

ehmannky's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

3.0

An in depth look at 1- just how common trauma is in the US (and other places but this mostly focuses on a US-Canada context), 2-the treatments being developed to treat trauma more effectively, and 3-the ways in which trauma manifests physically and not just mentally. While you are reading this, you will be confronted with a lot of difficult things, and it does include trauma that comes from people who did the horrific thing, not just experienced them (everything involving every Vietnam veteran in this book seemed to revolve around the horrific things the soldiers did in Vietnam). This book is probably most helpful to those in the field of trauma recovery, as a lot of the treatments discussed aren't really things that the average person can do on their own. 

I think it's also important to know that this author has been accused of mistreating employees, and if you want to avoid that, here you go. https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/03/07/allegations-employee-mistreatment-roil-renowned-trauma-center/sWW13agQDY9B9A1rt9eqnK/story.html

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Death, Child death, Sexual violence, and War

chrissandrapherlv's review against another edition

emotional

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Domestic abuse, Rape, Death, Physical abuse, Suicide, Drug abuse, Suicide attempt, Child abuse, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Animal cruelty

chelina_bobina's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

A hard read but super inspiring and eye opening about the way trauma affects people and different ways to cope with intense trauma. Not a fix all to problems but a great place to start in order to rebuild your mental health. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Child abuse, Terminal illness, Sexual assault, Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Mental illness, Domestic abuse, Death, Sexual harassment, Medical content, Grief, Dysphoria, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Rape, Pedophilia, Panic attacks/disorders, Incest, War, Suicide, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Car accident, Addiction, and Alcoholism

crunchycrystals's review against another edition

idk i just wasn't getting a lot out of it and it was getting a little too much for me to handle. i don't feel comfortable giving a rating but i will say i liked the chapter on language i thought that was really cool

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Child abuse, Child death, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Death, War, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Car accident, Incest, Mental illness, Rape, Death of parent, and Self harm

Moderate: Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Abortion

this is a very heavy book please take all of these warnings to heart and know your limits there are so many descriptions of sexual assault (including of children)

meyahp's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Chronic illness, Car accident, Drug abuse, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Child death, Blood, Grief, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Rape, Classism, Child abuse, Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

kaylynnlock's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Addiction, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Mental illness, Domestic abuse, War, Rape, Medical trauma, Grief, Abandonment, Violence, Suicide, Drug use, and Death

Moderate: Self harm and Car accident

probablytoolate's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Chronic illness, Car accident, Death, War, and Domestic abuse

theskyboi's review against another edition

informative slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Addiction, Alcoholism, Self harm, Gaslighting, Domestic abuse, Violence, Sexual violence, Abandonment, Sexual assault, Forced institutionalization, Murder, War, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Medical content, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Rape, Physical abuse, Incest, Drug abuse, Death, Pedophilia, Suicide, Child abuse, and Child death