Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Bruce D. Perry, Oprah Winfrey

7 reviews

luke_33's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, Mental illness, Eating disorder, Abandonment, Addiction, Child abuse, Death, Medical content, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Grief, Drug abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Bullying, Self harm, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

sugarwookiee's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Racism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Self harm

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, War, Colonisation, and Violence

Minor: Alcoholism and Addiction

litliz's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Murder, Medical content, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Self harm, Racism, Child abuse, Abandonment, Colonisation, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Violence, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Mental illness, and Gun violence

Minor: Addiction, Abortion, Alcoholism, Slavery, Alcohol, Bullying, Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, Police brutality, Grief, Genocide, Drug abuse, Suicide, Sexual violence, Sexism, Rape, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Misogyny

infjkiki's review

challenging emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, and Grief

Moderate: War, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Suicide, Sexual violence, Police brutality, Violence, Self harm, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Racism, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Gun violence

comraderowan94's review against another edition

medium-paced

3.5

The book is very informative about how trauma affects the brain and the lasting impact that can have, but when discussing systemic issues, the authors gloss over the roll a capitalist society plays in the difficulties of recovery. The authors also need a more nuanced approach when discussing societal issues or need to be more specific about which social groups they’re addressing.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Self harm, and Violence

sakisreads's review

challenging informative sad slow-paced

4.5

Wow! What a book! Oprah and Dr. Perry’s conversations are intense but iconic; there was so much to digest and take in. Two parts struck out to me in particular (the latter being because I’m taking a flight later on today)! 😳

‘Crimes involving a Black suspect and a white victim make up only 10% of all crimes - but they account for 42% of what’s reported on television. When you’re watching the news and almost half of what you see is Black people committing crimes against white people, that’s going to influence the way you think when you see a Black person.’ ‘Many people have had the experience of feeling ‘exhausted’ after a day of travel, even if all they did was stand in a few lines and sit on a plane. This happens because your brain was continuously monitoring thousands of new stimuli. Remember: Activating your stress-response systems, even at a moderate level, for long periods of time is physically and emotionally draining.’

I do think the audio version may be slightly better for this book, only because it is so conversational and slightly clunky in written form because of that, but it was still very beautiful. I don’t feel that I could take it all in at once so I am definitely going to try and get an audio edition ✨

Thank you! 🥰

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Mass/school shootings, Addiction, Bullying, Chronic illness, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Hate crime, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Violence, and War

elizastudying's review

challenging hopeful informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.25

Very accessible introduction to how what happened to us changes us. Little bit repetitive sometimes but hugely important still.

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Content Warnings

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