Reviews tagging 'Panic attacks/disorders'

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

50 reviews

alyssard's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I felt as if this book started EXCEPTIONALLY slow and I found that so difficult because of how unlovable the narrator comes off, but the narrator goes through so much character growth throughout the story that it makes up for how slow the beginning of the book felt.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Vomit, Drug use, Gaslighting, Grief, Alcohol, Suicide attempt, Emotional abuse, Addiction, and Mental illness

Moderate: Murder, Medical content, Child abuse, Child death, and Bullying

Minor: Fatphobia, Terminal illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Stalking, Physical abuse, and Sexual assault

ginadapooh's review

emotional funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Self harm, Stalking, Child death, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Animal cruelty, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Ableism, and Bullying

xalrynne's review

emotional funny relaxing slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Rape, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexual violence

eurekareads's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

“It often feels as if I’m not here, that I am a figment of my own imagination.”

She is fine. She goes to work all week to the same office for eight years, has an hour dedicated for lunch, her crossword puzzles, she has frozen pizza every friday, a bottle of vodka and a weekly conversation with her mother. Clearly, she has her life in control.

Eleanor Oliphant is fine. Well, not completely.

The story explores the deep unspoken sadness and how isolation or individualism sometimes equates to loneliness. I have met several people that reminded me of Eleanor: the slightly odd boy from high school that is often the butt of the jokes, the awkward girl who scuttles away from social gatherings and subjected to countless rumors and speculations. Seeing the world through the lens of social misfits made me recalibrate the way I treat people around me.

She expressed at one point that “when the silence and aloneness press down and around me, crushing me, carving through me like ice, I need to speak aloud sometimes, if only for proof of life.”

It was beautifully written, infused with warmth and unspoken sadness. It empowers a woman who was literally and figuratively scarred by her childhood trauma. Eleanor’s journey towards healing, self discovery and friendship is well plotted. This book showed me the significance of compassion and how a small act of kindness can bring hope to someone.

Cheers to better days! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Alcoholism, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders and Sexual assault

Minor: Emotional abuse and Toxic relationship

mallory10100's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted relaxing sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

i loved the character development and the discussions of mental health in this story. certainly didn’t expect abuse to play such a big part. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Alcohol, Death, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, Medical content, Addiction, Suicide, Gaslighting, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, and Vomit

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Body horror, Grief, Fatphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, and Violence

Minor: Gore, Confinement, Cursing, Drug use, Incest, Eating disorder, and Excrement

roraisabella's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

A beautiful and addictive read, i adored Elenor and her internal monologues, and found myself both laughing and crying at times. I wish i could read it again for the first time. The only thing i would say is the pacing is a little slow at times, but stick with it, her story is worth it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Alcoholism, Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Addiction, Child abuse, Death, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Gaslighting, Medical trauma, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Stalking, Violence, Child death, and Domestic abuse

kylahspages's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Child death, Alcoholism, Self harm, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Stalking, and Suicide attempt

lark42's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Abandonment, Toxic relationship, Fire/Fire injury, Panic attacks/disorders, Bullying, Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Child death, Addiction, and Fatphobia

greatexpectations77's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Whew. A good solid overview of what trauma can do to the brain, and a reminder to be patient with folks because we don't know their stories. Also, there are so many social cues that we just pick up from other people, and it's perfectly reasonable that not everyone has picked up the same ones. We need to not shame anyone for questioning them or still learning about them.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Alcoholism, and Bullying

Moderate: Classism, Grief, Vomit, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Murder, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Abandonment, and Excrement

Minor: Cancer, Sexual assault, Stalking, and Rape

Relationships with mothers are very complicated, and if you feel that your mother has harmed you emotionally, know that I believe you <3

katymat18's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, and Body horror

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Child death, Child abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Mental illness

Minor: Rape