Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang

54 reviews

mzynda's review

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis and Mental illness

caidyn's review

emotional hopeful medium-paced

4.5

Damn, I hate that I put off reading this book for so long. It was a fantastic read about a woman learning to live with schizoaffective disorder.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Rape

sofipitch's review

dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

I saw some people saying that they didn't this the essays were personal enough, which I thought they were deeply personal and some were a little difficult to read for my own reasons. I can see why Wang might put up some distance, she is not your spectacle 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Forced institutionalization and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Suicide and Rape

schnanko's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis and Mental illness

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

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

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

upperjackpain's review

challenging dark emotional fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Suicide and Forced institutionalization

eve81's review against another edition

informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Torture

Moderate: Suicide