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I "read" this book via audio and listened to the first 59% in November and then had to wait until February to get it again and finish it. So the information is definitely disjointed in my mind and I think I need to read a lot of other reviews to really remember the initial parts of the book. While I agree with most of Mate's critiques of our society and the resulting negative impacts on our collective physical and mental health, this as a hard book to read. He listed so many examples of people, especially women, with various health conditions brought on, he theorizes, by their attempts to respond to an unhealthy society or personal traumas. I felt as if I might come down with every health condition he detailed because I too once kept my feelings to myself or put someone else's needs above my own or went through an extraordinarily stressful time period. So that's kind of what sticks with me from this book: fear. Somehow, his last chapters, in which he tried to promote a positive vision for healing, haven't penetrated anywhere near the same degree as the fearful examples.