Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

The Parakeet by Espé

4 reviews

jjdevries's review

challenging emotional sad tense fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Minor: Suicide

nwestwater's review

dark emotional sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Suicide

brogan7's review

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.0

A beautiful book and beautifully illustrated, however very difficult content.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis and Mental illness

TW

suicide, death of a parent

krys_kilz's review

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

The art style of this book is incredible. The way color is used to convey tone, mood, emotion is breathtaking. 

I liked how the story was told through vignettes, it felt like the reader was getting a glimpse into the author's childhood through bits and pieces. This fragmentation of memory really encapsulates the trauma the author, his mother, and their family experienced. An episodic and unstable timeline also mirrors his mother's experience of psychosis and mental illness.

As someone who is mad, this book was also incredibly heavy to read. It reminded me why I hate the biomedical model of mental illness so much and how violent and dehumanizing "mental healthcare" often is. I kept wishing I could hear the mother's perspective, but I know that's not what this particular book was about.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, and Suicide

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Medical trauma

Minor: Rape