Reviews tagging 'Alcoholism'

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

4 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

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.

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

flijn's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring sad medium-paced

5.0

I'm in awe of this book. In exploring the lives and stories of people with mental illness, the author creates a radically humanizing perspective on the people she describes and through them, on others who suffer in similar ways and the people in their orbit. This humanization is the result of the sensitivity in the writing towards the shifting perspectives that are present in every narrative. They defy easy categirisation and judgment, and challenge you to reflect on the way the individual, the social environment, and the wider societal context interact. I love how the personal approach shows the complexity of modern life.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Eating disorder and Suicide attempt

Minor: Alcoholism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Racism