Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker

53 reviews

ka_ke's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense slow-paced

4.0

Good read if you’re interested in the impacts of schizophrenia. It’s slow moving but each detail proves important. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Cancer, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Pedophilia, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Terminal illness, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Car accident, Child abuse, Confinement, Infidelity, Self harm, Stalking, and Toxic relationship

gloriazthompson's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Incest, Mental illness, Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide attempt, and Suicide

taymarie6's review against another edition

emotional informative medium-paced

5.0

I adored this book. Great mix of scientific vignettes and the story of the family. This authors reading style just flows well for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Ableism, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Rape, Murder, Incest, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Drug use

jennifer_bush_73's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Drug use, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Gun violence, Violence, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Rape, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, and Murder

stargirlmolly's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Murder, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, and Drug use

sideknee's review against another edition

informative sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Sexual violence, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Suicide attempt and Animal cruelty

Minor: Murder

caidyn's review

emotional informative medium-paced

4.75

When I picked this book up, I had no clue how compelling it would be. I absolutely couldn't put it down and didn't want to. I read it in less than 24 hours. This is one of those books that's almost too much to be true. Yet it's all entirely true. Six out of ten boys in one family developed schizophrenia, all without there really being a family history of it before them. It's a sad story, but it also shows how times have changed and theories about schizophrenia have morphed over the years. It's an incredibly good book that's woven so well by the author.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Incest, Mental illness, Murder, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Violence

amelew's review

emotional informative tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, Rape, Pedophilia, Incest, Toxic relationship, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Suicide, Murder, Drug use, Stalking, Gun violence, and Medical trauma

kendallreadsbooks's review

dark informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Child abuse, Mental illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicide, and Murder

Moderate: Terminal illness and Suicide attempt

slantrhymes's review

challenging dark informative sad medium-paced

5.0

I couldn't put this book down. It's sad and fascinating. Kolker  tackles extremely fraught subjects clinically and delicately, always giving the utmost respect to the people he's writing about. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Incest, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Suicide and Murder

Minor: Ableism, Abortion, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Antisemitism, Cancer, Car accident, Drug use, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Terminal illness

The author discusses all of the very, very difficult subjects as clinically and respectfully as possible--there is nothing sordid here--but he is honest about things that happened to and between the family members he interviewed for the book. Some of those things are stomach-turning.