She thought she'd moved on, but her new diagnosis illuminated the way her past continued to threaten her health, relationships, and career. Both of Foo's parents abandoned her when she was a teenager, after years of physical and verbal abuse and neglect. 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. But behind her office door, she was having panic attacks and sobbing at her desk every morning. By 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. I want to have words for what my bones know. Every cell in my body is filled with the code of generations of trauma, of death, of birth, of migration, of history that I cannot understand. Print What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex TraumaĪ searing memoir of reckoning and healing which investigates the little-understood science behind complex PTSD.
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