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A review by brogan7
Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us by Rachel Aviv
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.75
A remarkable book about how we construct mental illness, how we conceive of it and therefore how it manifests and how people suffer ...
A tough read, in many ways, yet always insightful and questioning all received truths.
I was particularly riveted by Naomi's story, it was so compelling and her struggles were so layered and complex, and I felt like raging sometimes, she's not mentally ill she has been socially and politically and economically done over! And she knows it!
Very thought provoking, including the less detailed but salient issue of the author herself and her decade of anti-depressants...what a crazy social experiment we are all a part of.
A tough read, in many ways, yet always insightful and questioning all received truths.
I was particularly riveted by Naomi's story, it was so compelling and her struggles were so layered and complex, and I felt like raging sometimes, she's not mentally ill she has been socially and politically and economically done over! And she knows it!
Very thought provoking, including the less detailed but salient issue of the author herself and her decade of anti-depressants...what a crazy social experiment we are all a part of.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Mental illness, Child death, and Murder