Reviews tagging 'Panic attacks/disorders'

The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green

57 reviews

nutmegandselkie's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic and Grief

Moderate: Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Child death

bmpicc's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

This was not what I expected. Full disclosure: I had no idea what Anthropocene even meant which is probably why I ignored this book for so long. Perhaps I feared it was "too smart" for me?

Thank you John Green for helping me slow down. For helping me open my eyes again. For reminding me that it is ok to like, dislike, enjoy, or be nervous about literally anything because my thoughts and feelings are valid too.

This essay collection includes everything. Who knew I could find comfort in an essay about Diet Dr. Pepper, or wisdom hearing his take on Halley's Comet? I didn't realize Green and I are the same age. I felt oddly closer to him when he gave a shout out to a bottle of Strawberry Hill. This book was straight up comfort. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Suicide, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

danasaur's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad slow-paced

4.5

Particularly excellent as an audiobook!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic, Medical content, and Mental illness

Moderate: Medical content, Pandemic/Epidemic, Alcohol, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic, Grief, Alcohol, Cancer, Vomit, Terminal illness, Suicidal thoughts, Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Drug use, and Death

wickedgrumpy's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative lighthearted reflective sad slow-paced

2.75

Formatting would have benefited greatly with the use of footnotes, which in turn would have helped with pacing and flow.

I found myself reading an essay or two about topics I had varying levels of interest in, and on to the next essay I would read the title and often put the book down because I had had enough of the meandering stream of consciousness associations for that session.

There were some things that I found value in, but it wasn’t really my cup of tea.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Body shaming, Bullying, Car accident, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Drug use, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Pandemic/Epidemic, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Self harm, Toxic relationship, War, Religious bigotry, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Cancer, Confinement, Cultural appropriation, Death, Deportation, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Xenophobia, Alcoholism, Classism, Islamophobia, Antisemitism, Child death, Chronic illness, and Mental illness

bbygirl21's review

emotional funny reflective slow-paced

4.0

I was thoroughly surprised by this book. I went in open minded, but I fully expected not to enjoy this book. I don't usually read nonfiction books. I don't go out of my way to find nonfiction books and beyond that general hesitation with nonfiction, the premise of the book didn't really interest me all that much when going into it. But I surprisingly really liked it. I did start to feel a little bored with the book near the end of it. But overall I really enjoyed it and would recommend.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Fire/Fire injury, War, Confinement, Genocide, Classism, Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, Grief, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Alcohol, Cancer, Chronic illness, Animal death, and Antisemitism

quasinaut's review against another edition

funny hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

No notes. This book was extremely educational and well-researched, but also deeply personal and reflective. Hopeful and moving and funny and topical and informative. A phenomenal listening experience.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief and Panic attacks/disorders

lettuce_read's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Cancer

erin22's review against another edition

emotional funny informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

Beautiful, thoughtful, informative regarding new subjects and insightful regarding familiar ones. A excellent review of Green’s collection of reviews from the modern age.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Mental illness

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders

mayavd's review against another edition

hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

Contrived musings

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Suicidal thoughts

youngwessels's review against another edition

hopeful inspiring medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Vomit, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Pandemic/Epidemic, War, Xenophobia, Death, Alcohol, and Suicide