Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang

4 reviews

flordemaga's review

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

A beautiful, self-reflective, self-aware book about how hard it is to exist when mentally ill, but about how easy it is, too. Very insightful and honest, two qualities I like in a book. Asks many thought-provoking questions, to the mentally ill and non-mentally ill  alike, to the schizo-affectives/typal/phrenic (and adjacents) and the nonpsychotic alike. 

The font is nice and angular, on the print copy I read. I like that, too. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Child abuse and Pedophilia

caradubois's review

dark emotional medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Sexual assault and Emotional abuse

demo's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

This is a tough one to try and rate. I thoroughly enjoyed this book but did recoil at the pseudoscience and mysticism in last 20% or so. I was raised in a family that attempted to treat my childhood and adolescent illness with a wide range of expensive pseudoscientific remedies, and while I don't deny that Wang seems to gain grounding and comfort from the experience, I struggle to ascribe good faith motives to the practitioners treating her chronic health issues with similar costly means. I take issue with the author on many a point, but still found her perspective fascinating and her writing compelling. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Chronic illness, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Medical content, Murder, Suicide attempt, Confinement, Ableism, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Rape, and Suicide

Minor: Pedophilia

emilybolivia's review

informative slow-paced

4.0

Ms Wang shares deeply personal stories from her lived experience alongside facts and figures about mental health diagnoses and treatments.  I was overwhelmed by her bravery to share so openly and thankful for her efforts to break down stigma.  

I think that this work could have benefited from better editing.  Many of the essays jumped around a lot and I didn’t have a strong sense of what she was trying to convey.  Others were much more effective, I think the best organized and executed was The Choice of Children.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Rape and Emotional abuse