Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang

37 reviews

caittothelin's review

challenging emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Rape

anna_brabazon's review

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Ableism and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Sexual violence

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

aweekinthelife's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.5

Esmé Weijun Wang describes her mental health and chronic illness journey with candor and sharp writing. her stories helped me understand a little more of what it looks like for her to live with a mental illness interspersed with historical origins of things. 

some [books] written in such lousy prose that I believed I was killing off brain cells faster than either schizoaffective disorder or trauma could;

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

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

sunn_bleach's review

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

Kinda lost me on the last two chapters on the mysticism side. That stuff is just nonsense. But as someone who identifies with a history of PTSD and ADHD, I have a ton of appreciation for every other part of this book. Especially discussions on having children, the ephemera of diagnoses, etc. Awesome and recommended reading for most.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Mental illness, and Confinement

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

tetedump's review

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

maddiekeefe's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

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