Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman

6 reviews

mmefish's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

It could be a 5 but I wanted to know more about how she actually left, how she was fighting for her son, how her family members reacted. Plus I did not appreciate the few misogynistic remarks the author decided to include for whatever reason.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Vomit, Emotional abuse, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Blood, Child death, Mental illness, Eating disorder, Medical content, Murder, and Sexual content

Minor: Child abuse and Pedophilia

issyd23's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

4.0

Very different from the Netflix show: more dark, cultish & sad. I thought it would be like Fiddler on the Roof but it was more Handmaids Tale 😢 These Hasids make the Amish look progressive 4📖

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infertility, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Racism, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Blood, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, War, Abandonment, Ableism, Antisemitism, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Car accident, and Child abuse

greatexpectations77's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

Really interesting, and I definitely applaud the author's bravery in writing this all down.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Pregnancy, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Child abuse, and Pedophilia

Minor: Excrement, Infidelity, Addiction, Bullying, Abandonment, Alcoholism, and Confinement

sachimi's review against another edition

I could not bare the ableist language and descriptions, and use of the r word. There were also discriminatory depictions of mental illness and restraint.  There were racist descriptions of black boys with no meaningful discussion around this,

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Mental illness, Racism, and Sexual violence

hannahrhian's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Antisemitism, Blood, Car accident, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Murder, Pregnancy, and Toxic relationship

sorcha's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Gore, and Vomit

Minor: Medical content, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Pedophilia, Ableism, and Miscarriage