Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Pure Colour by Sheila Heti

4 reviews

jarshual's review

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Death, Grief, and Mental illness

ardour's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, and Death

Moderate: Mental illness and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

- there are no official or explicit themes of either mental illness or psychosis in the book, however much of the novel is the narrator processing and reflecting on their deep grief, and for a large (very metaphorical) chunk of the book they are very detached from reality in a dissociative way that some do after experiencing trauma — I wanted to give a paranoia/delusions content warning for that portion of the book that it dips in and out of reality and can be quite disorientating. - other than that, the way the author deals with things that may qualify for one psychiatric diagnosis or another, is very holistic and de-pathologising/de-stigmatising as it is framed as part of the human experience for many people. No ableism or stigma applied by author.

marjoleinvanderspoel's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad slow-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

3.5

A strange novel about grief and love and the delusions it can cause. Interesting musings on ideology, but kind of grating repetition of certain points that I don't agree with. I didn't like the constant use of god (metaphor or not) as an explanation, reason, scape goat, whatever. But I did really enjoy the spiraling and instances of near-arborescens so there's that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Death of parent

my_plant_library's review

challenging emotional reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Grief

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Suicide and Alcohol