Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Sex with a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery by Annie Liontas

3 reviews

happyunicorn7's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness

Minor: Ableism, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Antisemitism, Car accident, Cancer, Death of parent, Death, Gaslighting, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

exlibrisadriana's review

dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad

4.5

Just finished this book and it hits so close to home. It’s actually not entirely on sex with a brain injury but covers a lot of different parts about living with trauma to the brain, chronic fatigue and relationships (including the self) + more. It’s raw. Made me cry and feel less alone. 

I’d recommend this book to anyone and extend a special invitation to friends/fam who have ever wondered why someone with a brain injury doesn’t just ‘get better’ in a linear fashion, even when you mean well.  you’d take away a lot from this text. 

A few short take always:
🧠 Most studies with people who haveTBIs haven’t included women or queer folks.
🧠  50-80% of people incarcerated( in the US ?)have experienced at least one TBI. This is typically before incarceration. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide

annereads's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective

5.0

Annie does an amazing job sharing her story and combining it with research (or lack there of when it comes to women with brain injuries) and highlighting how people with brain injuries are seen by others depending on how their race, class, sexuality, and background are perceived. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Chronic illness, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Mental illness, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Death of parent, and Ableism