A review by whimsicalmeerkat
Rescue Me by K.M. Neuhold

1.0

That is not how PTSD works. That is not how anxiety works. The term is psych hold, not “psyche” hold. I was on board with this book until the point where trauma-based mental illness got fixed in an offensively rainbows and unicorns way. I don’t know the author’s background, but I do know mental illness, and the depiction of what it takes to “fix” the character is at the very best naive, and at worst could cause someone to feel like they are failing when it isn’t that way for them. The level of trauma written into this character isn’t something that could be fixed by a stress ball, pack of gum, a month of therapy, and a new apartment. That just isn’t how it works. I’m willing to suspend a fuck ton of disbelief for smut and fluff, but this was just too far.