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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.
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Internal medicine, Mental health, Post-traumatic stress disorder, Patients, Biography, Mind and body, Biography & Memoir, Psychology, Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic, Historical Trauma, État de stress post-traumatique, Biographies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / Asian & Asian American, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), nyt:paperback-nonfiction=2023-03-12, New York Times bestseller, Personal memoirsPeople
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What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
2023, Allen & Unwin
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What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
Feb 21, 2023, Ballantine Books, Random House Publishing Group
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0593238125 9780593238127
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What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
2022, Random House Publishing Group
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What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
Apr 07, 2022, Allen & Unwin
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1911630946 9781911630944
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What My Bones Know
2022, Ballantine Books, Random House Publishing Group
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0593238117 9780593238110
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What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
2022, Atlantic Books, Limited
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1838957391 9781838957391
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