brigidnotbrigit 's review for:

The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabor Maté

3.25

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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Informative but didn’t really tell me anything new or world changing. I get what the author was trying to say about positive worldview being healing and needing to be considered in terms of medical healing, but it often came across as “believe your way out of chronic illness” which is not true.

The occasional accent from the audiobook reader were distracting and I’m unclear if they were offensive or not??

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cancer, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Medical content

Moderate: Child abuse, Genocide, Violence, Grief, Colonisation, Pandemic/Epidemic