Reviews tagging 'Panic attacks/disorders'

Στο σπίτι των ονείρων by Carmen Maria Machado

99 reviews

amyelliot's review against another edition

dark emotional funny medium-paced

4.75

This book is reflective, heartbreaking, and informative. It taught me about queer history and the relationships and disfunctions that shaped our community today. It also tells the personal story of a queer woman dealing with domestic abuse and her mental state in a fragmented and fascinating way. I read it in days. I recommend this to all gay women! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Gaslighting

talking_heads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Lesbophobia, and Gaslighting

jordynkw's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Cursing

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Biphobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Lesbophobia, and Sexual harassment

squidknees's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Blood, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Car accident, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

snowiceblackfruit77's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

sarahsbookstacks's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, and Alcohol

karelovesbooks's review against another edition

dark reflective fast-paced

5.0

Memoir is of a relationship gone bad and a breakdown of the pieces within that relationship that form a pattern of psychological abuse. The author wraps in narrative tropes that are supported by film, fiction, queer history, and more. It was a very compelling read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Violence, Vomit, and Murder

Minor: Blood

rmperezpadilla's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Lesbophobia, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Body shaming, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, and Murder

Minor: Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and Vomit

veeples's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.75

The beautiful, dreamy prode Machado employs is a brilliant and sharp contrast to the devastation that she experiences. It reads like poetry, though it’s not. It’s fluid and heartbreaking and gorgeous, and I am so glad to have read it. If you are a queer person, and even if you’re not, I think it’s a valuable read as a narrative that describes a mentally and emotionally abusive relationship and how its just as harmful as a physically abusive one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Alcoholism, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, and Alcohol

Minor: Body shaming, Blood, Dementia, and Car accident

sapphicmuscaria's review against another edition

dark hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

love book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Drug use

Minor: Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail