Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

In the Country We Love: My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero

6 reviews

kthyha3's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm and Suicide

Moderate: Mental illness, Deportation, Racism, Panic attacks/disorders, and Addiction

aimnorth's review

emotional funny reflective fast-paced

5.0

The author has a beautiful way of telling a tense and emotional story with a unique and funny voice. It is frequently sad but also hopeful and overall it's just informative and realistic.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Deportation

Moderate: Alcohol, Mental illness, and Addiction

The story is about a young girl whose parents are deported and then she often struggles with addiction and dark thoughts through her adult life.

maggies's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative medium-paced

2.0

An important story, to be sure, but written in much too conversational a tone for my liking. The content was at least high school level, given the wide array of traumas explored, but the style was more like second grade, and it was a turn off for me. Also, perhaps because the book was initially published in 2016, the ideas/solutions presented in the call to action in the last two-ish chapters were less than revolutionary. I definitely felt for Diane and her family and families like hers, just couldn't get on board with the delivery.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Misogyny, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcoholism, Mental illness, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Drug use

ellornaslibrary's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

This book has heavy, emotionally challenging content which might be a given considering the subject matter though I still wanted to put it out there. If you're not in a great place? I'd recommend holding off a little. I'd been putting this book off for awhile cause I knew it'd be a difficult listen. Yet I'm glad I finally got to it. While I cried a lot while reading this book? I also smiled and laughed and blushed and raged and a thousand other things. There's obviously stuff in here that I could not relate to — experiences that I can't even imagine going through let alone surviving — yet there's other parts that are relatable as well. It's a great book that's enhanced by the lovely job Diane Guerrero does telling her story. It feels more like sitting with an old friend who's having a chat than listening to a story from someone you've never met before. What she goes through is something that nobody should ever have to especially as a child. The injustices dealt to her parents were awful and cruel, and again something that nobody should ever have to go through. This story like so many others is proof of the change that needs to happen in the United States so that people get the help they should instead of being treated in such an unjust and unethical manner.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, and Grief

Minor: Toxic relationship

There is parental loss in this book. It's not death, but it's loss nonetheless so I did content warn it for grief. There wasn't an option for parental loss or loss of a parent though.

mondovertigo's review

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Xenophobia

Minor: Bullying and Toxic relationship

n0th4nks's review

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Mental illness, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts