![]() ![]() I barely recognise myself and the person that I’ve become in the aftermath is unrecognisable from the way I used to be, just like the crisis that Eden struggled with. ![]() God, I identify with so much of the post-trauma behaviours listed in the book. I don’t know why I feel the need to do that, but yeah. Which I guess was kind of why I’d read it in the first place, because I was struggling with emotional numbness towards the event and was spiralling with PTSD symptoms, and I needed to trigger myself in order to cry. I read the “What Happened” section towards the end last night, and it had me in tears for nearly an hour because it triggered my own memories of my own rape I know I’m a grown adult reading this YA novel about a teenager and revelling in all of the typical YA tropes, but this book broke my soul. ![]()
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