Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

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

10 reviews

mswingholm's review

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

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.

dangrous's review

emotional hopeful fast-paced

2.0

This had interesting stories in it but there wasn't really an overarching thesis other than like the system doesn't treat mental illness very well? Sort of confusing overall, though I liked learning about the people's lives. I also kind of hate things about mental illness but this was more about the system so it wasn't too bad for me

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

wildflower37's review

informative medium-paced

4.0

The stories of this book - including the one about the author herself - were written with such compassion. I loved the exploration of the personal, cultural, biological, and psychiatric explanations for mental illness.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Racism, and Child death

shakakan's review

dark emotional informative slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Forced institutionalization, Suicidal thoughts, and Abandonment

teerah's review

informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Child death, Grief, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Racism, and Suicidal thoughts

kellyofcali's review

2.25

While I found a lot of the content interesting, I found myself confused about the purpose of this book, beyond a strange sense of fear and awe about what the mind can go through. The author seemed to send mixed messages about treatment and medication. I preferred her personal anecdotes to her philosophizing, and in the end came away a bit unsatisfied.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Chronic illness

Moderate: Self harm, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, and Death

Minor: Pregnancy, Medical trauma, and Medical content

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

svmreads's review

challenging dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt and Suicidal thoughts

adriennne's review

informative sad

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Child death and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Self harm