Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang

27 reviews

annvalentine's review

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis and Chronic illness

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Self harm and Rape

creativerunnings's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Self harm, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Ableism, Bullying, Confinement, Medical content, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Chronic illness, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

hmetwade's review

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Suicide attempt, Chronic illness, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, and Self harm

sjbshannon's review

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Medical trauma

vercopaanir's review

emotional informative reflective slow-paced

Again, this book is very much like a memoir and so I choose to leave it un-rated, but I was fascinated by Wang’s experiences and really appreciated that she was willing to share them so publicly as to write them in a book.  I do my best not to be ableist, but I know I have work to do, and that includes ableism around psychosis and the schizophrenias.  Being invited into the mind of someone with schizoaffective disorder was an incredible opportunity for learning and growth.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Murder, Bullying, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Suicide, Sexual assault, Medical content, Ableism, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, and Rape

evilwizard's review

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Chronic illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Forced institutionalization

literarylion's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

Pros:

• a good and necessary perspective on serious mental illness and its perception in society
• definitely a story that hasn't been told before

Cons:

• It got progressively more trite 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide attempt, and Chronic illness

ocean's review

emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

ihnmaims's review

challenging informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Chronic illness, Medical content, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Ableism

ellaschalski's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Ableism, Chronic illness, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Suicide