Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Una mente inquieta by Kay Redfield Jamison, Elena Campominosi

6 reviews

kelshenka's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.0

An important book for anyone who works with people who have a mood disorder. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, Medical content, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

littleseal's review against another edition

This has been on my to-read list for years, both as a therapist and a daughter of a mother who has bipolar disorder. 

Thank you for being vulnerable. Obviously some of the information Kay wrote is outdated now, but it's still a very intense look into psychology during the 70s/80s, as well as someone struggling with what was then-called manic-depressive disorder.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Confinement, Cursing, Dysphoria, Gaslighting, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Blood, Forced institutionalization, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Chronic illness, Medical content, Death, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

_kayla_marie_'s review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.0

This book did a really good job at explaining and helping me to understand manic depressive disorder. Many things I would have orignally thought to be schizophrenia can also present in people as mania (which I never fully understood until now) and psychosis isn't just exclusive to schizophrenia and unresolved trauma. It was a very interesting read. Slightly hard to follow at times, but really helped to shed light on a very serious mental disorder if it's left untreated.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Violence, Medical content, Forced institutionalization, Death, and Grief

tetedump's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide attempt, Medical content, Chronic illness, Forced institutionalization, Grief, and Mental illness

sofipitch's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

The first part was a bit of a slog, basically the author's privileged childhood made me think she wouldn't be reliable for this topic. But man was a wrong. She really shows how important it is to have ppl who truly understand what it is like to experience mental illness in psychology. And I didn't feel like this was a "woe is to me book" bc it isn't. In the epilogue she says that given the choice between redoing her life not having been manic depressive or being manic depressive, she would chose the later. And again, she very much ascribes to the medical model of it being an illness. But she understands, because she has been through it, it colors the way you see your whole life, so you can't picture being "yourself" without it. I can't recommend this book enough. It put a lot of things ppl who have mental illness go through/feel into words.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Mental illness

Moderate: Medical content

froggy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Ableism, Suicide, Medical trauma, Medical content, Forced institutionalization, and Drug abuse