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Stephanie Foo · 2022
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What this book knows
Complex PTSD is not a character flaw but a nervous system shaped by childhood violence — and it can, painstakingly, be rewired.
trauma-and-survival
She whipped me for not looking her in the eye, but if I looked with too much indignance, she whipped me again.
WBK-001Having an ACE score of 6 or higher takes twenty years off your life expectancy. My score is 6. At thirty, I was halfway to the end.
WBK-014self-and-identity
I watched myself with a strange bemusement. This is so weird. How funny! But what was I supposed to do with those feelings?
WBK-004I wish I could feel again. Everything should have fallen apart, but it didn't. It was like watching it all through a glass.
WBK-008grief
'Everybody also seen.' … 'How come you never say anything?' My whole history with this place — a story of huge, lavish love — was warping.
WBK-013I am laying out my most vulnerable self in front of friends and some strangers. I have never felt more cherished. I have never felt safer.
WBK-01515 published passages · book excerpt · lived experience
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