Reviews tagging 'Panic attacks/disorders'

Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir by Ashley C. Ford

53 reviews

trademark's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Rape, Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Grief, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, and Death

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders

delz's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

Ashley C. Ford has put on paper a very personal at times, heart wrenching account of her volatile family. *trigger warnings for a single (1 page) rape(not described graphically) and domestic violence.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, and Child death

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Cancer, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, and Pedophilia

codemasterpi's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful lighthearted reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Death of parent, Death, and Medical content

massivepizzacrust's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

Even though a lot of the details of Ford's life are completely different to mine, I connected to this memoir to the point of crying. I wish everyone would read this, especially if you've struggled with your family before. There is a lot more covered in this memoir than family relationships but I went into it without knowing much more and I recommend you do the same. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Physical abuse, Rape, Racism, Sexual assault, and Stalking

Minor: Child death, Cursing, and Panic attacks/disorders

emfass's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Death, Sexual violence, Sexism, Misogyny, Medical content, Medical trauma, Grief, Cancer, Pedophilia, Confinement, Body shaming, Animal death, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Forced institutionalization, Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, and Toxic relationship

valerie_elaine's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Panic attacks/disorders, and Pregnancy

annuich's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, and Sexual assault

leighannebfd3b's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Grief, Rape, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, and Pregnancy

Minor: Abandonment, Body shaming, Child abuse, and Domestic abuse

caseythereader's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

 - I've been following Ford's writing online for many years, so I knew this book would be good. If you need further proof, though, I listened to the entire audiobook while stuck in traffic for ten hours and was riveted the whole time.
- SOMEBODY'S DAUGHTER is an exploration of not only growing up and finding yourself, but finding your parents, too - the good and the bad parts of them. It's a book about loving difficult people, and holding conflicting parts of yourself and your loved ones at the same time.
- One thing that really stuck out to me is the way Ford illustrates how confusing childhood can be, when you're often punished for breaking rules you didn't know existed and the adults don't give any further explanation. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Cancer, Child death, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Medical content, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, and Violence

patricia_epub's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

“When you write about you and me? Just tell the truth. Your truth. Don’t worry about nobody’s feelings, especially not mine. You gotta be tough to tell your truth, but it’s the only thing worth doing next to loving somebody.”

This is a pleasant, spontaneous read that I am so glad I picked up (or clicked on, rather). Ashley C. Ford is a thoughtful writer and this fact shone through the way she wrote her memoir. Her experiences were deeply emotional, scarring, and painful—but she told her story, her truth, with the careful gentleness of someone who struggled for a long time but has also started healing (and continues to heal up to this day), someone who's been learning to be kinder to their selves. She wrote with understanding of the people who shaped her, good and bad. Wrote with sobriety that I think accorded much more nuance to the tone of her memoir.

As I said in my initial impression of this book, there is just so much to unpack. The Black experience is there tied with poverty, trauma, and the universal struggles of women: sexualization of women’s bodies, rape, and assault. There is also the inescapable struggle to reconcile her trauma with her absent father, and the truth behind his absence. Her tumultuous relationship with a detached, abusive single mother. The complicated feelings she associates with a grandmother who is both her loving caregiver but also her harshest critic.

I am truly glad to have heard this story from the author herself through her wonderful narration of the audiobook.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Rape, and Sexual assault

Minor: Pedophilia, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Body shaming, Stalking, Bullying, Misogyny, and Panic attacks/disorders