Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

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

55 reviews

wild_er_ness's review

emotional hopeful informative sad medium-paced

4.75

‘There was a psychiatrist who tried to put me on Prozac. I quoted Brave New World. “I want to know what passion is! I want to feel something strongly!” The psychiatrist responded, “I think that passion might be a chemical imbalance.”’

‘I didn’t just understand the weight of my abuse logically. I felt it, like a blade through flesh, like a bone popping out of place. I felt it like a lover saying it’s not going to work: sharp, immediate, and terrifying. I actually felt, with searing clarity, the horror of what happened to me—maybe for the first time ever. I felt how tremendously sad it was that I was forced to make my parents feel loved at such a young age. I felt how courageous I must have been to endure that torture, day after day for so many years, by the people I trusted most in this world. I felt a sense of love and adoration for my childhood self that I’d never been able to summon before.’

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Mental illness, Pandemic/Epidemic, Violence, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Physical abuse, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Death, Grief, and Chronic illness

Minor: War and Racism

reenum's review

challenging dark hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

abitofapoet's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad

5.0

wow. I’m so grateful i have had the opportunity to read this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, and Mental illness

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic

yaelm's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Abandonment, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Violence, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, and Mental illness

livreads4fun's review

challenging emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicide attempt, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Mental illness, and Racism

alex1's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective sad slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Racism, Bullying, Violence, and Suicidal thoughts

huldasif's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I learned a lot from this book, even with my degree in psychology and my own past trauma and recovery. It was very well written and researched, but also heavy and emotionally draining. It's divided up into five parts and I found that I needed to take good breaks between those parts, and sometimes more often too, for my own well-being, so it took me a long time to finish. I cried with the author and I laughed with the author and I got really angry too. All of the emotions! However, I really appreciated this work and it's not just an extraordinarily well written memoir, it's also something you can use for reference, because she doesn't just say something and demand that you believe her, she cites research and gives all of these sources so you can then look it up yourself. I really appreciated the effort and good, hard work that went into this book. So well done!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Physical abuse, Gaslighting, Domestic abuse, Violence, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, and Grief

hannahwillacy's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

vicjp's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Racism, Pandemic/Epidemic, War, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Hate crime

kcrockford's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Gaslighting

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic