Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Everything/Nothing/Someone: A Memoir by Alice Carrière

23 reviews

kbweis's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Incest, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Sexual assault, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Child abuse, Death of parent, Addiction, Dementia, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness

melissa_cosgrove's review

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

When I read the last sentence of this book, I whispered, “holy shit” to myself and then burst into tears. This book was unflinchingly honest, horrifying, raw, and then it was so overwhelmingly beautiful that I cried three separate times (including the very end). I can 100% see why Jeanette McCurdy recommended it. Unbelievably impressive debut. Brave, well-written, heartbreaking, and healing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Addiction, and Mental illness

cottagecoregrandma's review

dark emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm and Mental illness

barbn's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide, Pedophilia, and Addiction

dizzzybrook's review

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Self harm, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Death, Drug use, Drug abuse, Sexual assault, Blood, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship

fkshg8465's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.25

Oh wow. I didn’t know what I was getting nails into with this one. Full of triggers!!!! So beware before opening the book. Hard for me to know who I’m angrier with on behalf of the author - her father or her psychiatrist. Every time I thought it couldn’t get worse, so it did. But I don’t think I’m giving away the ending by saying I’m glad she pulled herself together, because I don’t think she could’ve written this book otherwise. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Alcoholism, Blood, Drug use, Dementia, Mental illness, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Grief, Infidelity, Medical trauma, Self harm, Sexual assault, Addiction, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, Death, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Panic attacks/disorders, Cancer, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Trafficking, and Drug abuse

edelia's review

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Self harm, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Drug abuse, Addiction, Terminal illness, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Suicide attempt, and Child abuse

tlbuckman's review

Sad and disturbing. I don't want to know the details of people that live like this : I'm sorry the author grew up in these environments.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Toxic relationship, Incest, Abandonment, and Mental illness

disnelyse's review

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Self harm, and Mental illness

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, and Suicide

literary_bug's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Alcoholism, Blood, Death, Grief, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Body shaming, Confinement, Dementia, Drug abuse, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Domestic abuse, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Incest, Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, and Injury/Injury detail