In this weeks #PTSDBookclub, we discuss Part I of Stephanie Foo’s What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma, the cycle of trauma, dissociation, work as coping strategy, and communication issues. And also weigh in the ongoing debate about content and trigger warnings on Mastodon. Continue reading What My Bones Know, Pt 1: The keel. The drone. The untiring ear.
We discuss Will Self’s frustrating essay, “A Posthumous Shock,” the tyranny of synecdoche, and the reactivity pyramid. Continue reading Against Against Trauma
This week, we discuss the second half of Terese Marie Mailhot’s Heart Berries, monstrousness, trauma, and loyalty. Continue reading Heart Berries, Pt 2: Loyalty to Monsters
This week, we discuss Terese Marie Mailhot’s searing memoir, Heart Berries, and talk about the “just self fallacy,” “truths that never hurt,” and PTSD mouth. Continue reading Heart Berries, Pt 1: PTSD Mouth
I couldn’t distinguish the symptoms from my heart. It was polarizing to be told there was a diagnosis for the behaviors I felt justified in having. And then, I knew some part of my disease was spiritual or inherited. Heart Berries, p 70 It’s August and Terese Marie Mailhot has got me thinking about generational … Continue reading PTSD Bookclub: Introducing *Heart Berries*
This final week of August, #PTSDBookclub discusses the final third of Mac McClelland’s Irritable Hearts, the power of work, and PTSD as a chronic and regularly fatal disease. Continue reading Irritable Hearts, Pt 3: Find the Thing You Won’t Give Up.
This week, we discuss the first third of Mac McClelland’s brave and moving memoir, Irritable Hearts. We discuss “earning the diagnosis” pf PTSD, the atrocity hierarchy, and Judith Herman. Continue reading Irritable Hearts, Pt 1: Earning the Diagnosis
This week, we begin discussions of Mac McClelland’s memoir, *Irritable Hearts: A PTSD Love Story.* Continue reading PTSD Bookclub: Introducing *Irritable Hearts*
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