Amanda’s Reviews > The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma > Status Update

Trying again. Perhaps reading the text rather than listening to the audiobook will provide enough emotional distance for me to tolerate exposure to such intense trauma on top of my own ✌🏼

Nothing about this so far meets my expectations. Thus far, this reads like an autobiography of the author’s work history, which I’m not interested in. This coupled with the graphic disclosure of his patients’ trauma experiences, makes this read incredibly and unnecessarily off-putting.

If you read this, MAJOR trigger warnings. I figured going in, but I didn’t realized I’d be hearing first accounts of PTSD experiences, which is highly activating and not quite what I prepped for in picking this up. So far, this seems to be written for “normies” attempting to understand mental illness rather than us struggling with it.