Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought by Lily Bailey

11 reviews

katsby0105's review

challenging dark hopeful reflective fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, Drug abuse, and Panic attacks/disorders

revanslombe's review

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Alcohol, Suicide attempt, Pedophilia, Grief, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Addiction

yeliabeb's review

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pedophilia, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Mental illness

hahanimation's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Read it all in under 24 hours. Still processing but it brought me to tears a few times and I'd reccommend it to folks who also struggle with rumination cycles, intrusive thoughts & worrying. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Car accident and Medical content

jordan21's review

challenging emotional tense fast-paced

3.5

As someone with OCD, I was looking for resources that would encourage my healing, and this book didn’t quite fit the bill. The recollections of the author’s compulsions were more exhausting than inspiring, which is the reality of many people suffering with this disorder but not something that’s necessarily enjoyable to read. 

I do commend Lily for how vulnerably and boldly she recounts her experience. OCD, like most other mental illnesses is frustratingly misunderstood and we need more conversations surrounding it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Alcoholism

eebluee's review

emotional hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

1.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

soggypotatoes's review

emotional hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

idk why, either I can't find it in the content warnings or it doesn't have it, but there is some brief description of csa namely child on child sexual assault

jjolynn's review

challenging dark emotional reflective tense slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Suicide attempt

citrinuke's review

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, and Suicidal thoughts

mgshrdn's review

hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

Favourite line: “Mindfulness is the fucking problem: my mind is too full”

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Mental illness