Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

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

45 reviews

naterjane's review

emotional informative reflective

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

eng2's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide

Minor: Racism, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic

alysereadsbooks's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

One of my favorite books of this year. This book is such a raw, vulnerable, and beautiful examination of mental health and trauma.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Abandonment

Moderate: Rape, Suicide, Grief, and Toxic friendship

lilivdw's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Suicide and Alcohol

ktdaugherty's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Racism

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide

_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

failedimitator's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense fast-paced

5.0

I know she wrote, in the intro, that this book has a happy ending. But honestly, I'm not sure that's true. 

I mean -- yes -- for her, absolutely. Her journey from where she started to where she ended up -- incredible. But also, I don't think anyone in the history of the world has ever worked as hard as Stephanie Foo has to heal. And very very few people have the contacts and resources that she does.

This is not a dig against the book, of course. The writing was phenomenal. And even though it was very heavy, it was still compulsively readable. 

But also, the feeling it left me with was -- Is this really what it takes to heal? This? ALL THIS???

It left me, quite frankly, demoralized. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Suicide, and Violence

kquiring23's review against another edition

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Xenophobia

thoughtsfromtheafro's review against another edition

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

pipercurda's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective tense slow-paced

4.25

one of those pieces of media where you’re eternally screaming “get out of there” to the narrator but she just. won’t. and thus her story begins. an incredibly raw and honest look at complex trauma and the things that cause/exacerbate/help/heal it. i found it more difficult to get through than most this length, but i think that mostly had to do with the subject matter and finding it hard to sit down and read about abuse for more than thirty minutes straight. highly recommend to anyone in a space where they are able to digest this type of content. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Abandonment