By age thirty, Stephanie Foo was successful on paper: She had her dream job as an award-winning radio producer at This American Life and a loving boyfriend. But behind her office door, she was having panic attacks and sobbing at her desk every morning. After years of questioning what was wrong with herself, she was diagnosed with complex PTSD—a condition that occurs when trauma happens continuously, over the course of years.
Both of Foo’s parents abandoned her when she was a teenager, after years of physical and verbal abuse and neglect. She thought she’d moved on, but her new diagnosis illuminated the way her past continued to threaten her health, relationships, and career. She found limited resources to help her, so Foo set out to heal herself, and to map her experiences onto the scarce literature about C-PTSD.
In this deeply personal and thoroughly researched account, Foo interviews scientists and psychologists and tries a variety of innovative therapies. She returns to her hometown of San Jose, California, to investigate the effects of immigrant trauma on the community, and she uncovers family secrets in the country of her birth, Malaysia, to learn how trauma can be inherited through generations. Ultimately, she discovers that you don’t move on from trauma—but you can learn to move with it.
Powerful, enlightening, and hopeful, What My Bones Know is a brave narrative that reckons with the hold of the past over the present, the mind over the body—and examines one woman’s ability to reclaim agency from her trauma.
1 有用 untamedheart 2022-03-23 09:38:45
看了三分之一,弃,都是已知的。
4 有用 大板牙 2022-12-04 01:09:46 美国
听到第三章,骇人听闻。||作者特别努力积极地尝试各种方法从cptsd中痊愈,真的令人钦佩。了解到了很多关于心理疾病的知识,同时也有很多小细节戳我。比如她说看医生那么麻烦,要看保险能不能用要打很多电话,process很劝退。有两点takeaway,一是let the happy moment sink/register,二是pain和suffering不同,无需为pain而feel bad,pain... 听到第三章,骇人听闻。||作者特别努力积极地尝试各种方法从cptsd中痊愈,真的令人钦佩。了解到了很多关于心理疾病的知识,同时也有很多小细节戳我。比如她说看医生那么麻烦,要看保险能不能用要打很多电话,process很劝退。有两点takeaway,一是let the happy moment sink/register,二是pain和suffering不同,无需为pain而feel bad,pain是身体的一部分。听书就不是很容易做笔记,听到一些引人深思的段落有时候也就那么过去了。 (展开)
0 有用 Mackie 2024-02-14 07:22:34 美国
跟糟糕的父母彻底切割,理解他们的过往与痛苦,在工作上卓越而意气风发,构筑起稳固而有爱的关系,心理问题的解决永远需要处境的真正变好,非常强大的一个女人。同时我更好奇一代移民的问题,他们怎么变成了会殴打和虐待小孩的父母。
0 有用 Stranger 2024-02-01 07:26:06 德国
感谢作者的书写,无比感谢,让我终于看到了仿佛能够找到描述自己的痛苦的话语。
1 有用 lzhang 2022-09-15 22:34:39 广东
Healing is never final. 开始理解自己和一些身边的人,曾经可能经历了什么。
0 有用 拾荒小泥子 2024-05-12 11:20:11 美国
看了三个月的英文书 前面不错的,探寻cptsd 到底是哪儿来的,后面有点疲了
0 有用 akira999 2024-04-30 08:46:28 加拿大
cptsd
0 有用 nolifenolies 2024-04-25 09:49:08 加拿大
2023/12 Beautiful, heartbreaking.
0 有用 翘课Booyah! 2024-03-08 01:47:24 广东
好几个书友推荐的年度书籍,期待值太高了,没有想象中好。要说那部分特别触动我的话,大概是她对混乱心理的描写很细,把真实的纠结体验用文字呈现出来了。
0 有用 Mackie 2024-02-14 07:22:34 美国
跟糟糕的父母彻底切割,理解他们的过往与痛苦,在工作上卓越而意气风发,构筑起稳固而有爱的关系,心理问题的解决永远需要处境的真正变好,非常强大的一个女人。同时我更好奇一代移民的问题,他们怎么变成了会殴打和虐待小孩的父母。