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

3 reviews

mandi4886's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Mental illness

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Racism, Deadnaming, Addiction, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Sexism, Suicide attempt, and Transphobia

Minor: Grief, Death of parent, and Death

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