Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

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

6 reviews

psammophilus's review

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

This book is surprisingly heavy. I found that I'm glad that I read it, but it really required me to be in the right kind of headspace. I would pause before recommending this book to others and STRONGLY suggest that folks check the content warnings before proceeding.

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Suicide, Self harm, and Sexual assault

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. 

---

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

zaraven's review

emotional informative sad slow-paced

2.5

like others wrote, this book is more of a trauma memoir than a critique or analysis of wellness culture, and in it, Roisin locates their own experiences within existing literature on trauma and post traumatic stress rather than critiquing the ways that trauma is conceptualized in the Global North (eg hyper individualized, often located in the mother or parent, focused on recovery, etc). i resonated with some of it, a lot of it felt repetitive, some things were contradictory without much explanation (eg opening with recognizing that forgiveness is not always helpful or necessary - which I appreciated - and then closing by emphasizing the value of forgiveness without sharing much about how they got there or how they hold both), and mostly generalizing the author’s own personal experiences and offering a partial analysis that left me wanting more. 

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Self harm, Incest, Child abuse, and Colonisation

marrocke's review

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

2.0

---

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. 

---

Content Warnings

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

drraytay's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Self harm, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Incest, and War