Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

The House of My Mother by Shari Franke

347 reviews

thelalilulelo's review against another edition

3.75

dark reflective sad fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual violence

Moderate: Religious bigotry

Minor: Infertility

nicmgray's review against another edition

4.5

challenging emotional sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Gaslighting

staceyinthesticks's review against another edition

4.5

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Pregnancy, Gaslighting

Minor: Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexual content, Vomit, Medical content, Mass/school shootings, Religious bigotry, Murder, Abandonment, War

piaschmi's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy

voxrusso's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

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I really enjoyed this book. I watched the Hulu documentary about Ruby and then saw that my library had a copy of Shari’s book and of course I was going to read it. Though I don’t personally feel an affinity for all of Shari’s talk of the LDS church and her faith, especially given my own background and the religious community I was raised in and am now firmly separated from, but that did not take away from the book itself. Shari takes deep comfort in her faith and I respect that as a reader and as a human who ultimately felt hopeful at the end of this book. After reading this, I hope Shari, her siblings and her entire family and those who lived through this find the peace and happiness they deserve. Shari is incredibly strong and she did a great job sharing her story without exploiting or risking retraumatizing her siblings, all of whom are still minors and therefore are never mentioned by name in this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Sexual harassment

Moderate: Homophobia, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts

Just reiterating that she does not use the name of her siblings in this book and their stories are very much left out in the sense that Shari doesn’t exploit them and leaves their stories for them to tell if they want to.

jillmey14's review against another edition

4.0

dark reflective fast-paced

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I always feel weird “rating” a memoir, as if someone’s life story can be categorized within a point system. I admire Shari’s bravery and her ability to open up to the support systems she found along the way. She’s going to have many milestones where her grief will feel fresh (wedding, birth of children, etc.) and i hope she still has those amazing supportive figures to lean on in those times. She’ll probably never see this review, but I wanted to say it anyway.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Grief, Gaslighting

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse

Minor: Confinement

tina725's review against another edition

4.0

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Religious bigotry, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Sexual harassment

vannway's review against another edition

5.0

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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it's heartbreaking the reality we live in where people can be monsters and cruel even to their own family and how a lot of the trauma can come from extremist religion beliefs... Sheri is so strong for telling her story and I hope she and her family can fully heal with time 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Confinement, Domestic abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Sexual harassment

kassi_chauhan's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional reflective tense fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Gaslighting, Abandonment

jaguarshark's review against another edition

3.0

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Gaslighting

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Biphobia, Bullying, Confinement, Homophobia, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Abandonment