In this deeply personal and thoroughly researched account, Foo interviews scientists and psychologists and tries a variety of innovative therapies. 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. She thought she'd moved on, but her new diagnosis illuminated the way her past continued to threaten her health, relationships, and career. Both of Foo's parents abandoned her when she was a teenager, after years of physical and verbal abuse and neglect. 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. But behind her office door, she was having panic attacks and sobbing at her desk every morning. By the age of 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. I want to have words for what my bones know. 'A striking memoir.A must-read for anyone healing from complex trauma' Jeanette McCurdy, bestselling author of I'm Glad My Mom Died Every cell in my body is filled with the code of generations of trauma, of death, of birth, of migration, of history that I cannot understand.
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