Reviews tagging 'Panic attacks/disorders'

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

115 reviews

delilahkkw's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Gut wrenching, clever, informative and beautiful. This memoir is intentional and healing. Although it touches on abuse and trauma, the other delivers stories and information with care for the reader. Her style is sarcastic yet still endearing. The book has a happy and hopeful ending and that disclaimer kept me reading when things were rough. Most of all I appreciated the communal and systemic lens Foo brought to her analysis on mental health and trauma. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Torture

Moderate: Alcoholism, Eating disorder, Genocide, Hate crime, and Abandonment

Minor: Racism, Xenophobia, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, and Sexual harassment

bhahnert's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Incredible personal analysis of one woman's experience with complex PTSD and how it's affected her interpersonal relationships as she's grown up. I will be returning to this book time and time again to glean new lessons from Foo's pages and from my own experiences. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Grief, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

quicksilver's review

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

This book is groundbreaking and brings C-PTSD to the surface in memoir fashion but it teaches more about the issue than most psych textbooks 📚 and should be mandatory for mental health students. Her narration in the audiobook with the audio clips from her sessions with Dr. Hom was a masterful move to advance the narrative and illustrated her reality. I plan on revisiting it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders and Alcohol

raesansom's review

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, and Pandemic/Epidemic

bambooboy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, and Abandonment

Moderate: Cursing, Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Xenophobia, Suicide attempt, War, and Classism

Minor: Hate crime, Infidelity, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, Medical content, Medical trauma, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

bella613's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Perfect example of why good memoirs are one of my favorite genres. 
This is incredible and I'd highly, highly recommend this book. Stephanie Foo is an incredible writer and storyteller, as well as a very self-aware person with amazing insight. She has done a lot of work in therapy and it shows. I loved listening to her read the audiobook herself. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

sraphael3810's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Pandemic/Epidemic

crystalisreading's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Transformative book,  for both the author,  and any reader open to what she is telling us. Highly likely to be triggering to anyone with cptsd. I had to set it down and take a break multiple  times. But I also learned so much,  about myself and about others.  the audio version is well-done too. Foo works in radio and podcasts, and you can tell.  Hugest recommendation! just please check content warnings first.

Thank you to #NetGalley and Ballantine Books for an advance copy of #WhatMyBonesKnow by Stephanie Foo. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Ableism

Minor: Chronic illness, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Infidelity, Terminal illness, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Colonisation, and War

_readerfromtheblacklagoon_'s review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

prrrrrsh's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective

5.0

Incredible book. Affirming and relatable and agonizing all at once for those of us with cptsd. One of my favourite books I’ve read on the subject. Foo did a really great job of bringing facts + research together with her personal narrative in a way that wasn’t clunky. Hard to read at times. I especially loved the last few chapters, the conversations with Dr Ham in particular. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Abandonment