Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

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

22 reviews

jilliant's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective slow-paced

3.0

I did appreciate the perspectives of these stories and how vastly different each one was. I just think they were a little too disconnected? There seemed to be a vague overall theme of dissatisfaction with the healthcare provided for mental illness, but nothing concrete. I just wish there had been a more unifying message to tie everything together?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Mental illness, and Suicide

nopebook's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.0

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Minor: Forced institutionalization, Self harm, Death, Medical content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, and Eating disorder

mswingholm's review

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Graphic: Suicide attempt, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Eating disorder

bloomingpear's review

informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

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

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

melissa_l_mcabee's review

challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.75

This book may be the most impactful view on mental illness I have ever read. The lives and minds of the people she included spoke to the part of me that wonders if I'm the only one that feels the way I do. It was validating to see others perspectives and experiences. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abortion, Addiction, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcoholism, Self harm, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Child death, Death, Eating disorder, and Mental illness

This is a book about the impacts of mental illness on four very real people. If you don't want to read about the traumas that come with it, then this is not the book for you.

brogan7's review

hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

A remarkable book about how we construct mental illness, how we conceive of it and therefore how it manifests and how people suffer ...
A tough read, in many ways, yet always insightful and questioning all received truths.

I was particularly riveted by Naomi's story, it was so compelling and her struggles were so layered and complex, and I felt like raging sometimes, she's not mentally ill she has been socially and politically and economically done over!  And she knows it!

Very thought provoking, including the less detailed but salient issue of the author herself and her decade of anti-depressants...what a crazy social experiment we are all a part of.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Child death, and Murder

caidyn's review

informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

An excellent read with a critical, cultural lens on mental illness. That lens often gets lost with practitioners.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Mental illness, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

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