Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen

15 reviews

samarakroeger's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Mental illness, Abortion, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Infidelity, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

klimts15thchild's review

dark emotional sad medium-paced

5.0

It’s honest, it’s tragic, it’s straightforward, and now I have to ready everything by Ditlevsen translated into English.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Infidelity, Abortion, and Mental illness

lhulmes19's review

dark emotional sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Drug abuse, Addiction, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, and Toxic relationship

okarenhelena's review

dark emotional funny inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Addiction, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Cancer, and Eating disorder

Minor: Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Infidelity, War, Abandonment, Self harm, Pregnancy, Misogyny, Medical content, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Antisemitism, Chronic illness, Medical trauma, Classism, and Vomit

beatrizstg's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

wow. what a journey this book has led me into.

Tove's life is incredibly sad and fascinating, her childhood, the loneliness, the lovers and husbands. the way she was abused mentally and physically (with drugs). the last third of this book is a rougher one, but brilliant.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Addiction, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Medical content, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship