Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America by Audrey Clare Farley

3 reviews

nialystic's review

dark informative reflective slow-paced

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Rape, Ableism, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Incest, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Forced institutionalization

cronareads's review

challenging informative medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Sexual violence, Medical trauma, and Domestic abuse

sleeson's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

2.75

I find memoirs and non-fiction books surrounding mental illness fascinating. I have some pushback when it comes to the diagnosis of mental illness in families born before 1957. I still have many other books to read. But so far, the common denominator of the stories I've read, is the extreme physical & mental abuse received by their parents, very early in age. I have anger on behalf of these women toward their parents, teachers, and doctors. They held these women back and continuously let them down for no reason. They deserved better. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Sexual assault, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcoholism, Bullying, Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Physical abuse