Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

6 reviews

hollyrebecca's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

• Such a poignant and impactful exploration into the effects of loss and grief and trauma.
• Joan has found such a perfect method of depicting the ways in which the mind battles with the death of a loved one. The lack of coherency through much of the telling, due to Joan constantly slipping into tangential tales and getting stuck on disjointed memories, is so reflective of the way your brain tries to protect itself by latching on to images and feelings of a time before such grief encompassed your being.
• I have never understood my own thoughts and feelings, about the past loss of my family members, to such a degree as I have after reading this. A truly necessary read for all.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, and Death

Minor: Suicide and Murder

ieotter13's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

3.25

did i accidentally read the play version? yes. was it still good? also yes. 

a pretty poetic book about going crazy as a result of intense grief. 

i did have fun imagining how i’d stage this as a play tho so worth it ig?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Terminal illness, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Mental illness, Medical content, Chronic illness, Child death, and Grief

wheelyautistic's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful sad fast-paced

5.0

I loved how I was practically in the mind of the author. Although it seems like it's a little all of over the place and hard to keep track of in reality this perfectly depict the author's mind and thought through the toughest time in her life.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Medical content, Chronic illness, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Medical trauma

rachthecreator's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Grief, Blood, Chronic illness, and Medical content

cfell's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, and Mental illness

switchywitchsitch's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Terminal illness