Reviews tagging 'Schizophrenia/Psychosis '

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

88 reviews

mellowreading's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

adiah's review against another edition

dark reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Mental illness

Moderate: Blood and Sexual violence

Minor: Sexual content and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

snartyhasgottheskills's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.0

. so- this book is incredibly relatable, sad and the emotional nature of the book makes you empathise with the main character, which sucks because sylvia plath uses racist remarks throughout and sometimes disregards the priveledges given to her/the main character due to disadvantages she faces within sexism, homophobia and ableism. The beginning of the novel is basically a recount of plath’s life and written in a lighter tone even when exploring dark themes, the rest of the novel however is written within an incredibly dark headspace and kind of glorifies suicide and other harmful ideas which may be harmful to some readers and isn’t really explained anywhere on blurbs or covers which isn’t needed but i think is necessary 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Death, Gaslighting, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexism, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

literally all the tw tbh

tropical_depression's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

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

3.0

It was sad, not that I was expecting anything else. But it was sadder than I had anticipated. It was just tragedy after tragedy and it truly got me into the character's headspace. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Self harm, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Panic attacks/disorders, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Gaslighting, Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Blood, Vomit, Violence, Toxic friendship, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Self harm, Medical trauma, and Emotional abuse

chiara_dose's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Self harm

Minor: Vomit, Suicide, and Blood

kiren's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

It's a fascinating book but there was also like five chapters about suicide attempts. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Sexual content

adearen's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Medical content, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

curatoriallyyours's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Alcohol, Blood, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Infidelity, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Medical content, Physical abuse, and Sexism

Minor: Racial slurs, Racism, Vomit, and Forced institutionalization

alonadadonut's review against another edition

challenging dark funny 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Mental illness

Moderate: Suicide, Sexual assault, Self harm, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Medical trauma

Minor: Racism and Death of parent

spthomas's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

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

4.75

A very interesting narrative of a lady slowly losing her mind, lots of jumping back and forth in the story, very funny but also very dark at times

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Suicide