Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

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

12 reviews

hoguelikewoah's review

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.5

This takes the reader through clinical vignettes across Dr. Perry's timeline, in addition to personal trials experienced by Oprah - who muses about experiencing her own adversity and trauma in childhood.  Compared to books like "The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog" or "The Body Keeps The Score", this read is much lighter in tone and quickly arrives to points that help add both insight into where trauma originates, how to look for it in others, and subtle notes on how to create a trauma-informed network around us all (to benefit from).  I read this one not too many weeks after completing Stephani Foo's, "What my Bones Know" and found it a welcome companion.  The audiobook is narrated by the authors, and I enjoyed this one enough that I was able to finish it in two days.  

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Suicide, Child abuse, and Drug abuse

jaz777's review

hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

4.25

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Child abuse, and Physical abuse

Minor: Self harm, Mass/school shootings, Grief, Suicide, Sexual violence, and War

olivemason's review

emotional informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual violence, Self harm, Death, Suicide, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Gaslighting, War, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Sexual assault, Child abuse, and Drug abuse

litliz's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

---

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

hailcornell's review against another edition

hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

A good listen. This is a good book for those who are just starting out on their healing journey. As for those with trauma who have already started getting involved with their healing (therapy, etc) this book may feel slightly redundant or not as informative. A good read nonetheless.

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Racism, Suicide, Mental illness, Self harm, and Sexual assault

wwweronka's review

challenging emotional informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

Audiobook. I want to go through the ebook to pick up some quotes I'd like to remember. 

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Self harm, Racism, Medical trauma, Domestic abuse, Grief, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Suicide, and Mental illness

Minor: Death of parent, Eating disorder, and Death

infjkiki's review

challenging emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

---

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

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! 🥰

---

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

krh_2911's review

hopeful informative fast-paced

4.75

I found this book enlightening, insightful, and educational, and most of all it didn’t leave me feeling in despair. The truth is that we all have trauma in our past and present that has impacted how we interact with others, how we love ourselves, and how we view the world around us. As a society, we need to move to a culture that is kind, and loving and doesn’t lead with trauma or the question of “what’s wrong with you?”, but instead “what happened to you?” - Even just a change of the words can help the message land more gently on the person on the receiving end. I do recommend this book to understand how your own trauma has shaped your life, but also how others have shaped how theirs. I like books that encourage me to think about others in a new way...and this book does that.      

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Suicide

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.

---

Content Warnings

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