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Yeah, I went to bed around 8.30pm so here I am wide awake and well slept. Read another chapter of my book - now that I'm keeping off reddit for lentish. The body keeps score. It's about how we react to trauma and ptsd. It's interesting, but like with most self help books, it feels about 5x too long. I know people in publishing, I see the fluffed up points and word waffle. I prefer more concise writing in non-fiction. I never saw a maths book with twenty bullshit pages on Pythagoras' childhood dreams of being a dancer.
I have that book too lol! I'm halfway bc I keep putting it down (some of the cases are quite triggering), but I enjoy looking at mental health from a well-reaearched, scientific perspective; the way Bessel details the history of PTSD is very engaging!
But yes, it waffles! So much waffle! GET TO THE POINT DAMMIT
I'm watching that show Severance on apple and it made me think of how the characters take their trauma from personal life into the work world and the trauma from the work world into their personal life world
spoiler
they get tortured at work n/k ☹️hence some more motivation to read that book
and I just finished reading "Bully in Sight" and I am surprised how much reading the case histories affected me . I can usually be quite detached when reading. Hope I'm ok reading that Bessel book.
omg, I have that book in audio and am going to start it today