Reviews tagging 'Panic attacks/disorders'

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

10 reviews

jmarob's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Homophobia, Death of parent, Mental illness, Sexual content, Infidelity, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, and Grief

Minor: Mental illness, Suicide, Car accident, Panic attacks/disorders, and Toxic relationship

rhubarbpi3's review against another edition

funny lighthearted reflective fast-paced

4.5

I quite liked this! I thought it would be way more sad like the play (which I haven't seen but have listened to and heard a ton about) but I didn't find this very sad at all? She talks a lot about her longing for a relationship with her father, but not that she's sad she didn't have a good one... very interesting and I loved all the literary references/extended metaphors all the way through, this is the first graphic novel I've ever read to have done that. The word choice was interesting? I didn't dislike it, but there were more words I had to google than any other book I've read this year, which was interesting to pair with the perceived reading level of a story in pictures and words. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Grief, Infidelity, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, Car accident, and Child abuse

grem_ler's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Infidelity, Child abuse, Homophobia, Blood, Dysphoria, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Car accident, Death of parent, and Sexual content

haileyhardcover's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

I don’t know how to rate this book, so I simply will not. Did I enjoy reading it? No, not particularly. It is awkward, painful, and unnecessarily sesquipedalian. Is it also incredible? Undoubtedly, yes. 

The amount of TIME that must’ve gone into writing - or more specifically DRAWING - all of this is mind blowing. With a cursory glance, one might look at Bechdel’s artistic style and think it unoriginal - similar to so many other comics we’ve seen before. But I beg you to look longer. Look at the detail; not in EVERY panel, but so many of them. Look at all of the WORDS. There are so many words - beyond the captions and the speech/thought ballons, so often the art of the panels themselves are just words - snippets from letters, journals, books, newspapers, court records, or the dictionary… and it’s all hand drawn?! I can’t begin to imagine how much time this would take… 

Fun Home is not fun. I cannot say I enjoyed reading it, but I also absolutely cannot deny that it’s a masterpiece. I have no idea how they could’ve turned this into a musical… 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Medical content, Child death, Gore, Grief, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Car accident, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Sexual assault and Pedophilia

sammyelliott_'s review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Mental illness, Lesbophobia, Infidelity, Homophobia, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Car accident, Cursing, Dysphoria, Infidelity, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Suicide, Domestic abuse, and Sexual assault

Minor: War, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, and Drug use

There are multiple references to grooming of young boys by older men. There is one chapter which specifically discusses obsessive-compulsive behaviour with very detailed descriptions of the reasons and effects on her.

kaimetcalfe's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Suicide, Death, Dysphoria, Infidelity, Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Sexism, Grief, and Mental illness

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Panic attacks/disorders, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Violence, Sexual content, Alcohol, Biphobia, Bullying, and Drug use

Minor: Pedophilia, Stalking, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, and Alcoholism

abbyj_04's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

it was a little hard to understand at times, but overall i enjoyed it a lot. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Outing, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Cursing, Grief, Homophobia, Car accident, Death, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, and Mental illness

Moderate: Pedophilia and Adult/minor relationship

emmehooks's review against another edition

emotional funny sad tense fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Homophobia, Mental illness, and Death of parent

Moderate: Pedophilia and Panic attacks/disorders

mimeflower's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Sexual content

boy_topics's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious reflective medium-paced

5.0

A queer masterpiece. Complicated, beautiful. Rich with literary allusions. A queer English major's wet dream. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Death of parent, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship