In this deeply personal and thoroughly researched account, Foo interviews scientists andpsychologists and tries a variety of innovative therapies. She found limitedresources to help her, so Foo set out to heal herself, and to map her experiences onto thescarce literature about C-PTSD. She thought she'd moved on, but her new diagnosis illuminated theway her past continued to threaten her health, relationships, and career. After years ofquestioning what was wrong with herself, she was diagnosed with complex PTSD - a conditionthat occurs when trauma happens continuously, over the course of years.īoth of Foo's parents abandoned her when she was a teenager, after years of physical andverbal abuse and neglect. But behind her office door,she was having panic attacks and sobbing at her desk every morning. I want to have words for what my bonesknow.īy 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. Every cell in my body is filled with the code of generations of trauma, of death, of birth, ofmigration, of history that I cannot understand.
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