Reviews tagging 'Death'

When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress by Gabor Maté

7 reviews

mads_jpg's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative medium-paced

4.0

Really enlightening book, even though it's over 20 years old now I feel like it was still the first time I've heard most of the ideas presented. I think I definitely read it at the right time in my life, I've only recently listened to my body saying 'no' and hopefully I can now take on some of the advice from this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Sexual assault, Suicide, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Bullying, Child death, Eating disorder, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Violence, Excrement, Vomit, Abortion, and Pregnancy

stevia333k's review against another edition

I was listening to the audiobook which came out in 2021, but basically even though I'm interested from the autoimmune info, it felt meandering to focus on the establishment. Turns out the book is actually from 2003. So yeah it's outdated.

Like I'm also reading a book from about 2016-2023 that basically accepts that the brain is just 1 body part, and that for some things some systems are dominant & for some other things it is not. This book in its attempt to bring back the brain is instead trying to argue that the placebo effect treatment is what we should be looking for, which as a person with psychiatric disabilities that require medication & having seen how psychiatric medications helped get 80% of captives out of psychiatric wards, this feels like some conservative/fascist Malcolm Gladwell shit.

Or, this book feels like in 2003 terms, someone accepting same-sex marriage, but then still asking who's the wife & who's the husband.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Death of parent

siobhanjor's review

Too emotionally heavy for me right now

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Content Warnings

Minor: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Mental illness, Terminal illness, and Medical trauma

faithaforman's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

This book really made me think. As someone struggling with internalized stress and anxiety who also has an autoimmune disease, much is this book hit close to home. The author did a good job of clearly explaining medical terms and cases, and the book circled back to earlier cases near the end to emphasize the conclusion the author was putting forth about the relationship of trauma and stress with autoimmune disease and cancer. The only reason I did not rate higher is I have not yet taken the time to review the sources and do some more digging to see if the author was perhaps very selective in their case and data choices. That being the case I am not comfortable rating higher until I feel more confident in the research utilized for the medical hypotheses posited in this book.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Minor: Infidelity, Physical abuse, Rape, Grief, and Abandonment

This book may awaken fear/anxiety regarding the hypothesis proposed and one's own handling of stress. Be sure you are in a relatively stable mental health condition before embarking to avoid emotional crisis.

gdaugavietis's review against another edition

informative reflective slow-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Suicide, Violence, Medical trauma, Abortion, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

lou_o_donnell's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Excrement, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Abandonment, Colonisation, and Classism

00phantom's review against another edition

I was reading this for a certification which I did not end up attending. 
It was not a very kind book. Basically blamed people for their illnesses (cancer and heart disease and other serious illnesses) and then offered no hope or actionable information. So I stopped reading it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Death of parent