This is the most personally relatable book I have ever read. The narrative is flowing and easy to read, it tells her life as a mix of stories and scientific information as she learns more about CPSTD, getting a dx years after struggling with adult life emotionally. 

It covers the ways that it's not just physical violence or one-off events, but years of threats and instability and dysfunction and a lack of unconditional love can traumatize the brain in a way different than regular PTSD. Foo is hitting adult benchmarks like "job" or "apartment" but before exploring the diagnosis and how to heal from it, is falling apart at the seams and struggling to regulate her own life. 

If you also have CPTSD or PTSD or adverse childhood experiences, this book is incredibly validating. You are not alone, and the author bears her struggles with socialization and her symptoms that manifest into her adulthood, and ultimately seeks out others within similar symptoms to ask the questions of: what is the science behind CPTSD? What is the science of healing and how can we fix our broken brains? Is a better life possible? (spoiler: it is, and this has a happy ending with found family) 

 I keep making my traumatized friends read this book. I think people without any childhood trauma would benefit from reading it to better understand their loved ones with different life experiences.