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(Don't) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation About Mental Health by Kelly Jensen

3 reviews

bookcheshirecat's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

4.5

“And that when we say “It Gets Better,” it doesn’t mean “Everything Gets Solved.” It means you will still carry the weight from when things weren’t good, but you will be stronger for it the next time you’re unhappy—and that time will come.” 

➽ [Don't] Call Me Crazy is a fantastic anthology filled with stories about mental health! It's so important to have a YA nonfiction about this topic and I liked the variety of the stories. Each contributor has a different experience with mental health and their specific diagnosis, so we get to see different perspectives. I liked how intersectionality was discussed as well, especially in connection with disability, the LGBTQ community and people of color. Having another marginalization affects people's experience with mental illness and that was discussed here as well. I also liked different takes on coping styles and medication, as not every contributor deals with their illness in the same way. There are simply so many important discussions to be had, be it about discrimination at work or judgement from society for being a 'bad' mentally ill person. I definitely have to do a reread!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Panic attacks/disorders, Addiction, Mass/school shootings, Mental illness, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Transphobia, Domestic abuse, Suicide, and Racism

maple_dove's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.5

(Don't) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation About Mental Health is a book that delves into the topic of mental health, both the ugly, beautiful, and neither. It encourages mental health discussions.

What I liked:

• The discussions about mental health (topics)
• The stories were real experiences
• There were pages on how to find more research further into certain mental health topics and how to find neurodivergent, and authors with mental illnesses

What I Didn't Like

• As much as I liked this book . . . I just wasn't very engaged

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Dysphoria, Fatphobia, Medical content, and Mental illness

Moderate: Alcoholism and Drug use

Minor: Suicide attempt, Infidelity, and Sexual content

Anxiety (graphic), Misgendering (graphic), Deadnaming (graphic), Assault (minor)

teo_rodas's review

dark emotional hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

Well thank g-d that’s done. I had it on my tbr for ages and finally made myself read it. Despite including two of my all time favorite authors, I enjoyed only two or three of the 33 pieces included, neither of which were theirs. The last essay is definitely worth reading and I found a lot of the graphic essays/visual media compelling. But this book is distinctly stigmatizing and ableist(or disablist to borrow a word from my favorite contribution that I will most certainly be adding to my vocabulary). It centers on the more palatable versions of mental illness and shies away from critique at nearly every opportunity. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Deadnaming, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Homophobia, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Outing, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Transphobia, and Violence

Moderate: Alcohol, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Vomit