Karky’s Reviews > The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture > Status Update

I understand and agree with much of what they're saying, but they're repeatedly using analogies that I find clumsy. I guess this will be a theme in the book.

It's a strange choice to say that our terminology around cancer as a thing to fight against isn't helpful when earlier they mentioned how a mother had said "fuck your diagnosis" to a doctor and then lived years beyond the time he gave her

This opens with how we're getting sicker. I don't know if that's the case since our understanding of illness has changed, and record keeping of certain populations was often neglected. In any case, the mention of younger generations feeling betrayed and not seeing a future in light of climate change, and the health impact of that stress worries me as we're already seeing a rise in the far right. It's gonna get worse.