Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang

37 reviews

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

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

ka_cam's review

challenging emotional informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

The essays were quick reads and kept me engaged- interesting look into the authors navigation of herself/identity and the experience of mental (and physical) health challenges. The essays were sometimes repetitive but I still found it an interested exploration of her experience and self-understanding. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Rape and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Suicide

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

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

hannu_bananu's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

machinations's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Child death, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Sexual violence and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Blood

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

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