Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure: A Graphic Novel by Lewis Hancox

5 reviews

joisaddler's review

emotional funny hopeful fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Dysphoria, Mental illness, Outing, Homophobia, and Deadnaming

bookswithlauren's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Medical content, Body shaming, Deadnaming, Eating disorder, Grief, Mental illness, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Transphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

meganpbell's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

This funny, honest, self-compassionate, perfectly cringy, loving, empowering graphic memoir of growing up trans in suburban England in the 90s and early 00s is just such a gift. I loved how Lewis, as an all-grown-up transman, self-inserts, visits, accepts, and tries to help his younger self, Lois, and all the humor and honesty with which he depicts his teen years and his transition. So grateful this book exists!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria and Eating disorder

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Sexual content, Homophobia, Vomit, Transphobia, Deadnaming, Medical content, Mental illness, Alcohol, and Body shaming

Minor: Blood

ajnagle's review

emotional funny hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

Fantastic memoir about the trans experience, really cool to see a memoir done as a comic. Quite hopeful, light tone on serious topics. Really good read

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Deadnaming, Eating disorder, Transphobia, Dysphoria, Mental illness, Medical content, Self harm, Body shaming, Bullying, and Alcohol

marywahlmeierbracciano's review against another edition

challenging funny medium-paced

5.0

Since he was a young child, Lewis knew that he felt like a boy in a girl’s body.  But in the UK in the 2000s, he wouldn’t discover the word “transgender,” and what it meant for him, until he was well into young adulthood.  In his wonderful graphic memoir, Lewis describes the struggles of living as a girl during his teen years—from hair pulling to disordered eating to obsessively bodybuilding—and the process of discovering his sexuality and gender identity, told in his native British vernacular with equal parts humor and heart. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Eating disorder, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Bullying, Transphobia, Sexual content, Mental illness, Deadnaming, and Cursing

Minor: Sexual harassment