Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

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

faerie_smutprincess69's review

informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

I knew what OCD typically looked like in behaviour (e.g. excessively and compulsively cleaning your hands and home because of disturbing thoughts around germs, or checking and locking doors and windows over and over because of fears around intruders, etc), but I didn't know what the inside of the mind of a person with OCD was like. The author, through first person, takes the reader through the journey of her life with her severely anxious and repetitive and disturbing intrusive thoughts that allow her no rest until she acts on her compulsions. And we, the reader, only get to feel her relief for a brief moment in time at the completetion of one of her many compulsions, before we are back to the steady and fast stream of anxious thoughts that plague the author exhausting existence.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Chronic illness, Forced institutionalization, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

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

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

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

smilinginthepictures's review

4.5

"There are people like me. Others out there who spend their days caught in the peaks and troughs of endless thought.
I am not a freak."
This is the way I feel right now. I feel so so seen and understood, and I'm crying because it feels so good. I'm very grateful for the people out there going through those things and speaking up about it, because it makes me feel like less of a freak. <3

of course, big trigger warning for everything surrounding ocd, therapy, suicide and mental health

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

Minor: Eating disorder

ocd

hothotheat's review

emotional hopeful informative sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

lowkeymarie's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Eating disorder, Drug use, Pedophilia, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts