Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind by Fariha Róisín

14 reviews

elissam1330's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Self harm, Sexual assault, Incest, Suicidal thoughts, and Pedophilia

gizellereads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Body shaming, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, Medical trauma, Incest, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Cultural appropriation, Fatphobia, and Abortion

knick_nat's review

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Abortion, Physical abuse, Child abuse, and Sexual assault

ashstrong172's review

slow-paced

2.5

This book started off strong, but never really made its point. I had hoped for an in-depth analysis of the ways in which wellness culture intersects with race and class, and Róisín did touch on this. However, the majority of the book was about her personal trauma and the search for "wellness" that came after it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Bullying, Suicidal thoughts, Body horror, Drug use, Eating disorder, Sexual violence, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Racism, and Sexual harassment

aubreystrawberry's review

More of a trauma memoir with occasional critiques of the overall wellness industrial complex- not really what i’m looking for rn. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Sexual assault, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Self harm, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Chronic illness, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, and Suicidal thoughts

marrocke's review

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Self harm, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Body shaming, Child abuse, and Colonisation

Minor: Islamophobia, Racism, Cultural appropriation, and Mental illness

elisabethj200's review

Very intense description of childhood abuse and self hate. Not great for me atm. Was looking for more of a nonfiction deep dive rather than memoir of abuse. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Suicide, Self harm, Physical abuse, and Suicidal thoughts

keatynbergsten's review against another edition

emotional informative medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Suicide attempt, Child abuse, and Suicidal thoughts

suzyreadsbooks's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

3.0

The title/marketing doesn’t seem to fit perfectly: it is mostly memoir, and many of the chapters had wide titles but took a very narrow approach through Róisín’s own experience with the topic (for example, the chapters on body dysmorphia and IBS). 
But once I got in rhythm with what this book was trying to do, I really appreciated it. Especially the second half (Part III: On Self Care and Part IV: Introduction to Justice).
I’d recommend the audiobook, read by the author. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Sexual violence

readingfortomorrow's review

emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

3.0

Not the examination of wellness culture I was looking for but an okay memoir

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Adult/minor relationship, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Child abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Emotional abuse, and Incest