Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong

55 reviews

arlangrey17's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Death, Grief, Hate crime, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Terminal illness

clarabooksit's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

4.75

An incredible essay collection. This is a must-read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Acephobia/Arophobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Police brutality, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Transphobia

Moderate: Abortion, Miscarriage, and Sexual content

I really appreciated that nearly every essay in this collection begins with content warnings, so the reader knows what they’re about to read.

biacedbooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

Very informative about living with a disability. I like that it was intersectional and talked about being queer, trans, BIPOC, etc., and how that relates to disability.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Rape, Racism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Transphobia, and Violence

solenekeleroux's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Transphobia

questingnotcoasting's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

This was a brilliant collection of essays from such a wide range of contributors. Most of them were perspectives I've rarely, if ever read from and I learnt so much. It's accessible, engaging and really informative. Several of the pieces discuss the social vs medical models of disability which I first learnt about in Rebekah Taussig's Sitting Pretty and I feel like I have a much better understanding of it now. It's rare I read a story or essay collection where none of the pieces feel weaker than the others but in this case I thought they were all great. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Terminal illness

tinana's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring sad

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Abortion and Sexual assault

bookishnatalia's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Acephobia/Arophobia, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Xenophobia

bowlofnicole's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism and Chronic illness

Moderate: Body shaming, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Rape, Physical abuse, Mental illness, and Grief

leighannebfd3b's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Abortion, Body shaming, Bullying, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Homophobia, Infertility, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, and Transphobia

teacupsandfirereads's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring slow-paced

4.0

Let me preface this with I am not an anthology fan. I find it hard to keep track of the different stories. But I knew I needed to read this one, because the stories and writers were something and people I could relate to.  Each story had a unique and important message and each one was special in it's own right. For that, I highly recommend everyone, and I mean everyone, read this book. Because although I have a disability myself, I learned something new from each and every one of these stories.

Some of my favourites include:
Guide Dogs Don't Lead Blind People. We Wander as One. by Haben Girma
Nurturing Black Disabled Joy by Keah Brown
Why my Novel is Dedicated to my Disabled Friend Maddy by A. H. Reaume

I wish that there was a collection of these types of stories from a Canadian perspective. I also appriciat that each story has content warnings, if necessary at the beginning, because let me tell you, there are many more than I can list.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexism, and Suicidal thoughts