Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us by Rachel Aviv

8 reviews

bloomingpear's review

informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, Confinement, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Child death, Racism, Alcoholism, Suicide attempt, Child abuse, and Self harm

productioneer's review

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide attempt, Racism, Pregnancy, Eating disorder, Confinement, and Child death

Minor: Death and Grief

beanusminimus's review against another edition

reflective

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Ableism, Addiction, Abandonment, Abortion, Eating disorder, Chronic illness, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, and Mental illness

pamnc's review

challenging dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Mental illness, and Confinement

mads_reads_books's review against another edition

informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Eating disorder

Moderate: Body shaming, Addiction, and Ableism

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Medical trauma, Self harm, Addiction, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Physical abuse, Mental illness, Medical content, Grief, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Chronic illness, Forced institutionalization, Eating disorder, Drug use, Drug abuse, Death, Confinement, and Alcoholism

toephia's review

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Drug abuse, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Abandonment, Addiction, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, and Mental illness

lowbrowhighart's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, and Mental illness

Moderate: Self harm, Suicide, Grief, Sexism, Confinement, Dysphoria, Suicidal thoughts, Classism, Fatphobia, Racism, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Child death, Death, Body shaming, Medical content, and Pregnancy

flowergrrl's review

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

Aviv is among my favorite nonfiction writers, and her first full-length book reminded me why. The depth of her journalism and the thoughtfulness of her cultural commentary are unmatched. I did find myself wanting more of her own opinion, or perhaps more background on the political contexts surrounding madness. But Aviv stays in her lane--which is, here, the ways external narrative constructs interiority--and the result is nevertheless masterful. I recommend this book to anyone willing to expand their understanding of mental illness.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Confinement, Self harm, Suicide, Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis