![]() ![]() She found limited resources to help her, so Foo set out to heal herself, and to map her experiences onto the scarce literature about C-PTSD. ![]() She thought she’d moved on, but her new diagnosis illuminated the way her past continued to threaten her health, relationships, and career. ![]() After years of questioning what was wrong with herself, she was diagnosed with complex PTSD-a condition that occurs when trauma happens continuously, over the course of years.īoth of Foo’s parents abandoned her when she was a teenager, after years of physical and verbal abuse and neglect. But behind her office door, she was having panic attacks and sobbing at her desk every morning. ![]() ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022- She Readsīy age thirty, Stephanie Foo was successful on paper: She had her dream job as an award-winning radio producer at This American Life and a loving boyfriend. providing real hope for those who long to heal.”-Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the little-understood science behind complex PTSD and how it has shaped her life ![]()
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