Reviews tagging 'Panic attacks/disorders'

Educated by Tara Westover

241 reviews

pranjuli's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

4.0

I wanna know more and lesser at the same time. Tara has a gift - this is undeniable, and her story is one of inspiration and abandon at the same time. I am horrified as well as gratified. 

Weirdly, despite being a story so away from our lives, Tara doesn't come across as an alien when discussing about her feelings and fears and how she felt when thrown into new situations after living a completely different life for 17 years. She doesn't feel unnatural, she doesn't come across as miraculous either. 
She is a woman, just like any of us, who had to grapple with so much. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Animal death and Animal cruelty

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders

maggiemcfly's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Racial slurs, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Animal death, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Gaslighting, Mental illness, and Misogyny

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders

somberlittleman's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

One of the most important and infuriating memoirs I’ve ever read. If you want to know some of the worst and most pitiful depths homeschooling in America can reach, Educated displays them unflinchingly. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Car accident, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Medical content, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Racism, Religious bigotry, and Sexism

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Cancer

marissasa's review

challenging dark reflective sad tense fast-paced

3.0

This memoir is a testament to the author's strength and resilience, and the ways in which education and the way we are raised really shapes who people become. Although this story is often harrowing and tense, the author had a bit of an emotionless matter-of-fact writing style that made it such that I wanted to keep reading but I never felt truly moved or emotional. This style makes sense though as she speaks about the way she learned to not let it show that the trauma and abuse she experienced got to her and to not outwardly show her weakness. I do really admire the courage she found to live life on her own terms and to write this book without the support of most of her family members.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Cursing, Bullying, Car accident, Emotional abuse, Cancer, Fire/Fire injury, Racial slurs, Religious bigotry, Violence, Animal death, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Panic attacks/disorders, Misogyny, Medical content, and Mental illness

lilianmathilda's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Violence, Sexism, Racial slurs, Misogyny, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Animal cruelty, Antisemitism, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, and Gaslighting

Minor: Animal cruelty, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Medical content, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Animal death, and Body shaming

garyosu's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Animal death, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Religious bigotry, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Sexism, Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Racial slurs, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic relationship, and Violence

_lilyonbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Murder, Gaslighting, Domestic abuse, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Animal death, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, and Panic attacks/disorders

naomib_'s review against another edition

informative medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Bullying, Car accident, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Violence, Xenophobia, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, and Antisemitism

Moderate: Murder, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Misogyny, Racism, Self harm, Body shaming, Cancer, Panic attacks/disorders, and Racial slurs

Minor: Blood, Murder, and Abandonment

rosegoes3's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective tense

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry

Moderate: Racism, Physical abuse, and Racial slurs

Minor: Sexism, Panic attacks/disorders, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Misogyny, Fire/Fire injury, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Mental illness, Medical content, Animal death, and Gaslighting

hcop's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Car accident, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Medical content, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Religious bigotry, Violence, and Gore

Moderate: Antisemitism, Panic attacks/disorders, and Police brutality

Minor: Cancer, Child death, Death of parent, Miscarriage, and Terminal illness