"A searing memoir of reckoning and healing from an acclaimed journalist and former This American Life producer investigating the little-understood science behind Complex PTSD and how it has shaped her life. By age thirty, Stephanie Foo was successful on paper: She had her dream job as a radio producer at This American Life and had won an Emmy. But behind her office door she was having panic attacks and sobbing at her desk. After years of questioning what was wrong with her, she was diagnosed with Complex PTSD-a condition ...
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"A searing memoir of reckoning and healing from an acclaimed journalist and former This American Life producer investigating the little-understood science behind Complex PTSD and how it has shaped her life. By age thirty, Stephanie Foo was successful on paper: She had her dream job as a radio producer at This American Life and had won an Emmy. But behind her office door she was having panic attacks and sobbing at her desk. After years of questioning what was wrong with her, she was diagnosed with Complex PTSD-a condition that occurs when trauma happens continuously, over the course of years. Both of Stephanie's parents had abandoned her as a teenager after years of physical and verbal abuse and neglect. She thought she'd overcome her trauma, but her diagnosis illuminated the ways in which her past continued to threaten her health, her relationships, and her career. Finding few resources to help her heal, Stephanie set out to map her experience onto the scarce scientific research on C-PTSD. In this deeply personal and thoroughly researched account, Stephanie interviews scientists and psychologists and tries a variety of innovative therapies with the determination and curiosity of an award-winning journalist. She returns to her hometown of San Jose, California, to investigate the effects of immigrant trauma on a community, she uncovers family secrets in the country of her birth, Malaysia, and learns 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, with grace and joy. Powerful, enlightening, and clarifying, 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 one woman's ability to reclaim agency from her trauma"--
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Ships promptly with care via USPS! No markings or highlights. Jacket and hardcover have very light wear. Clean, crisp, bright pages. Secure binding. Ships same day or next with the exception of Sunday. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 352 p. Audience: General/trade.
Stephanie Foo was successful on paper by the time she was thirty years old. She had a loving boyfriend and her ideal job as an award-winning radio producer at This American Life. But every morning, she was crying at her desk and experiencing panic attacks behind her office door. She spent years wondering what was wrong with her, and eventually a diagnosis of complex PTSDâ�"a disorder that arises when trauma occurs repeatedly over an extended period of timeâ�"was made. After years of physical and verbal abuse, as well as neglect, Foo's parents left her when she was a teenager. Though she had assumed she had moved on, her recent diagnosis revealed the ways in which her past still posed a threat to her career, relationships, and health. I had also reviewed this book on shabd.in and kindle.
