Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang

16 reviews

moonyreadsbystarlight's review

informative reflective

4.5

This was an excellent essay collection about the author's experience of schizoaffective and bipolar disorders. She talks about her experience of it, parts of the process getting diagnoses, dealing with ableism in various contexts, spirituality, media, and more. Not only does it show the mind of the author in some ways, it says a lot about how people with these less socially acceptable symptoms and disorders are treated.

The only real drawback of this was some of the discussion around autism in one of the essays. It felt very dated and I'm not sure how to feel about some of the discussion around functioning labels. So that is why I didn't give it a full 5 stars. The rest of the collection was really solid and very interesting. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Domestic abuse, Ableism, Death, Suicide attempt, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Rape and Suicide

glitterypiggies's review

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, and Suicide attempt

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

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

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

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

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

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

rowanbg's review

emotional informative reflective fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Ableism, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Self harm, Rape, Panic attacks/disorders, and Medical content