Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

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

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katsby0105's review

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challenging dark hopeful reflective fast-paced

4.25

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revanslombe's review

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challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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ghostingarden's review

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*no ratings for memoirs; cw: intrusive thoughts (if you struggle with ocd and are easily trigged/perceptive  to/by intrusive thoughts plz proceed with caution I had to take breaks in between because I found myself ruminating over her intrusive thoughts as if they were mine!*) 

As someone who got diagnosed with OCD just this year after years of battling terrible intrusive thoughts, this book was comforting in a weird way. The topics are obviously brutal, but it was comforting to know that I wasn't alone and that I wasn't a horrible human being just because I was struggling with this. Although Bailey and I suffer with different thoughts, I found myself relating to her in multiple ways. I think this is an important read to see a different perspective of ocd that isn't always talked about in popular media. 
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faerie_smutprincess69's review

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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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hahanimation's review against another edition

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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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jordan21's review

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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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jjolynn's review

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challenging dark emotional reflective tense slow-paced
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citrinuke's review

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dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

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mgshrdn's review

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hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

Favourite line: “Mindfulness is the fucking problem: my mind is too full”
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smilinginthepictures's review

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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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