Mental Health Bookclub discussion

Poll for group reread

Hello y'all!

I'll be leading the discussion for this book :)

To start out-- have you ever read it before (all or parts)? What interests you most about the book? Is there anything, in particular, you're hoping to learn from it? Are there any topics you can identify that might trigger you, and skipping forward/past would potentially benefit your mental health?

*kim
(she/her)

I've read bits and pieces of this book. I have actually wanted to read it forever for a few reasons (the top 2 being I am a neuropsych person and I have PTSD). My dad actually got it for me last year because he read it and it changed his life. I hate finishing good books lol, so I haven't finished it yet, but I am going to start over today!

As I said, I'm a neuro person and looking to get my doctorate in either neurobio or neuropsych, so I am really interested in all of the studies and science! While some of it will be reviewed material from grad school, I also know that there is so much info in there that I'm sure I will learn a ton.

I do get triggered by medical trauma type of things, so if that comes up I might skip the remainder of the chapter-- depending on what space I'm in mentally at the time of reading.

I read the entirety of the book very recently.

My interests in reading it are a mixture of my own experiences that I'm pretty self aware of as well as in a desire to find some applied methods to deal with the stress and or potentially alarming triggers in real life based on my past. Whether or not they were truly 'triggering' for me was kind of somewhat abated by the author's constant mixture of clinical presentation ( which felt almost without emotion ) and was followed by his own salient observations of ethical impact which he would speak too in brief passing. There were a few stories here and there that kind of made me flinch internally. Much of the information in the book was easy to understand and see in myself some of the relevant issues. It also spawned an interest in other related books, mainly dealing with the development of the conscious mind.

I was highly skeptical to some of the 'alternative' methods talked about, but was delighted by the authors clarity in exploring these alternative methods and he made a decent case in defending them or defending the pursuit of them.

hello just joined! I bought the audiobook n been dying to read this book for years. finally going to guve it a listen.

I read this book several years ago or more and it was very insightful. The connection between the mind and body is extremely powerful especially in terms of trauma. I liked that the book recommended using yoga and mindfulness to heal trauma which can be stored in the body like memories are stored in the brain.

Yes, I read this several years ago. It is very comprehensive. I think you could probably read it 5 times and still get something out of it each time.