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A review by katharina90
When the Body Says No: Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection by Gabor Maté
informative
reflective
medium-paced
3.5
Dr. Maté highlights the connection between childhood trauma (and resulting poor boundaries and/or lack of emotional competence) and chronic stress, which then adversely impacts our health, e.g. by increasing our susceptability to illness.
A lot of the evidence is anecdotal, but I found the book informative and I appreciated the food for thought it provides.
"Research has suggested for decades that women are more prone to develop breast cancer if their childhoods were characterized by emotional disconnection from their parents or other disturbances in their upbringing, if they tend to repress emotions, particularly anger, if they lack nurturing social relationships in adulthood and if they are the altruistic, compulsively caregiving types."
A lot of the evidence is anecdotal, but I found the book informative and I appreciated the food for thought it provides.
"Research has suggested for decades that women are more prone to develop breast cancer if their childhoods were characterized by emotional disconnection from their parents or other disturbances in their upbringing, if they tend to repress emotions, particularly anger, if they lack nurturing social relationships in adulthood and if they are the altruistic, compulsively caregiving types."
Content Warnings
Moderate: Addiction, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, and Domestic abuse