Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

Strong Female Character by Fern Brady

95 reviews

stephriggs25's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative inspiring sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, and Self harm

Moderate: Toxic relationship and Toxic friendship

veelaughtland's review against another edition

challenging dark funny informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Drug use, Infidelity, Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Sexual content, and Physical abuse

pat_sc's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Gutwrenching but simply wonderful in her sincerity. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Adult/minor relationship, Forced institutionalization, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, Drug use, Sexism, Self harm, and Misogyny

Minor: Eating disorder, Bullying, and Body shaming

thebookdragon_taylorsversion's review

challenging dark emotional funny medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Infidelity, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Alcohol, Panic attacks/disorders, Domestic abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Chronic illness, Classism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Addiction, Sexism, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Mental illness, and Sexual harassment

donna_fay's review

emotional funny informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

While reading this I have recommended it to almost everyone I met, as someone who’s struggled  with similar things but never knew what it was I’ve never felt more seen. It made me feel less alone in so many ways. I even shed a tear in the end

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Body shaming, Self harm, Eating disorder, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcohol, and Mental illness

Minor: Suicide attempt

jem_carstairs's review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

Awful as it is that it took until 2022 for a book like this to exist, I’m so glad it does now. Fern Brady writes such an accurate representation of autism in women, a phenomenon that has been ignored for such a long time, using both personal stories AND data. 

More people need to read this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Misogyny, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Ableism, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Alcoholism, Alcohol, Eating disorder, Bullying, Biphobia, and Drug use

quiet_vulture's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Bullying, Fatphobia, Body shaming, Self harm, and Suicide attempt

lovelyoutliers's review against another edition

funny informative slow-paced

3.0

This memoir gives us a look into Fern’s life through the lens of late diagnosed autism. She showed how some of her early life struggles were shaped by neurodivergence and how it affects her life. 

It’s an important addition to the sparse literature focused on autistic females. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Bullying, Child abuse, Drug use, Rape, Eating disorder, and Sexual content

tetrootz's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Suicide, Religious bigotry, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Panic attacks/disorders, Misogyny, Drug abuse, Body shaming, Self harm, Grief, Sexual assault, Mental illness, Blood, Bullying, Confinement, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Excrement, Cursing, Toxic friendship, Infidelity, Fatphobia, Adult/minor relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Stalking, Sexual harassment, Rape, Eating disorder, Medical trauma, Forced institutionalization, Addiction, Homophobia, Gaslighting, Dysphoria, Drug use, Ableism, Classism, Violence, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Sexism, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Pedophilia, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Vomit, Physical abuse, and Medical content

Moderate: Police brutality and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Dementia

bridget_t's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Body shaming, and Ableism