Reviews tagging 'Panic attacks/disorders'

Pageboy by Elliot Page

135 reviews

lindsaymck's review

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective tense slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Self harm, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Transphobia, Body shaming, Panic attacks/disorders, Outing, and Eating disorder

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

exhumedprince's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I'd die for Elliot Page

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Self harm, Dysphoria, Stalking, Emotional abuse, Transphobia, Bullying, Lesbophobia, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, and Medical content

Minor: Alcohol, Suicidal thoughts, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Drug use

phouka's review against another edition

funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Lesbophobia, Dysphoria, Deadnaming, Eating disorder, Hate crime, Child death, Homophobia, Stalking, Transphobia, Child abuse, and Sexual content

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Suicide, Drug use, Medical content, Body shaming, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Bullying, Car accident, and Rape

Minor: Pedophilia, Religious bigotry, Panic attacks/disorders, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Abandonment, Alcohol, Cancer, Self harm, Sexism, Mental illness, and Pandemic/Epidemic

mels_reading_log's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

5.0

This book was so good, but in that way that breaks your heart. I hate that Elliot had to deal with everything he has and didn’t always have people around him to make him feel safe. I’m so happy that he had the courage to write this book and that it has become so popular. It’s so important and empowering to hear queer and trans voices. This is just one trans person’s story, but hearing the joy and relief in his voice when he talked of being out and surgery gives me hope for others, that they feel safe enough to be themselves as well.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Homophobia, Medical content, Mental illness, Sexism, Body horror, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Sexual content, Alcohol, Hate crime, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual harassment, Toxic friendship, Deadnaming, Sexual assault, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Outing, and Suicidal thoughts

stephmcoakley's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Ableism, Addiction, Blood, Body horror, Suicidal thoughts, Biphobia, Deadnaming, Drug use, Stalking, Injury/Injury detail, Alcoholism, Hate crime, Medical trauma, Sexual assault, Vomit, Body shaming, Self harm, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Death, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Excrement, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Outing, Panic attacks/disorders, and Transphobia

stevia333k's review

dark tense slow-paced

4.25

The last 3rd was good, and i say this because the first 2 thirds were violent as hell. I had to learn that he was in a lot of action movies basically in order to handle it & i also could only listen 10 minutes at a time at triple speed. 

Anyways, after a while certain parts about being trans were like oh good my transfemme self isn't alone. 

The relationships though & the shadow work kinda went over my head because I'm aromantic but the workplace accident (because of how wreckless the directors were to black & queer lives) helped connect me to the kind of stuff he meant, so I am thankful he included workplace incidents like that.

Also the memoir isn't told as chronologically, so basically if you're taking notes then I recommend trying to make a character list sort of glossary since the time dimension doesn't sort them, but some segments are like public letters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Adult/minor relationship, Terminal illness, Dysphoria, Kidnapping, Medical content, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Rape, Toxic relationship, Vomit, War, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Confinement, Death, Body shaming, Gaslighting, Xenophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Cancer, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Stalking, Torture, Violence, Blood, Hate crime, Sexual content, Transphobia, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Lesbophobia, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Gore, Grief, Body horror, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Self harm

julianaparra's review against another edition

challenging reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Hate crime, Eating disorder, Child abuse, Self harm, and Rape

hellokira's review

adventurous

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Eating disorder, Outing, Suicidal thoughts, Lesbophobia, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Panic attacks/disorders, Homophobia, Dysphoria, Transphobia, Adult/minor relationship, Hate crime, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Bullying, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Rape

Minor: Bullying

marmaladereads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

This book is... ooof.

I love Elliott Page's work and I love him no less for having read this book, but I probably would not recommend this to other queer readers. This is an incredibly difficult, depressing, and mostly tragic story of mental illness struggle, how cruel society is towards queer and trans people, and a first hand account of why trans people have such a high rate of mental illness and suicide. 

There is an incredible amount of explicit, graphic on page homophobia, transphobia, and abuse in this book.

It's highly relatable, well written, and feels incredibly true, but also made me feel sad and scared about the state of the world, and I have quite enough of that in my life already, tyvm.

Do check the content warnings before reading. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Stalking, Transphobia, Misogyny, Eating disorder, Rape, Panic attacks/disorders, Emotional abuse, Dysphoria, Lesbophobia, Sexual assault, Homophobia, Sexual harassment, Self harm, Sexual content, Hate crime, and Body shaming

moliviabow's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

A heartwarming and personal journey! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Lesbophobia, Body shaming, and Stalking

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical trauma, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, and Outing