Reviews tagging 'Stalking'

Sociopath by Patric Gagne

32 reviews

courtreadsney's review

challenging dark hopeful reflective tense slow-paced

4.5

I like to consider myself a big proponent of mental health, as I have my own neurodivergent traits with daunting names attached to them as well. Yet, this was a big blind spot for me and some place I had a lot of unexamined bias. This memoir is written by a sociopath with a psychology PhD specializing in sociopathy. The audiobook is also read by the author and I especially loved this format because it helped to convey the author's feelings especially those of apathy and frustration throughout the story. I highly encourage everyone to pick this book up to review your own biases and better understand and empathize with sociopathic people. Yet, before going in please make a conscious effort to remain open minded as you read. Sociopathy has been treated as a diagnosis for criminals and one with no hope for so long. While you may not agree with every choice made in this story, I highly encourage you to hold off on your judgement until you've read it all. Mental health advocacy needs to be for all types of people and I hope Dr. Patric Gagne is able to give some hope and clarity to others struggling with similar issues she faced.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Stalking

Minor: Animal cruelty and Suicide attempt

evecaraa's review

challenging dark emotional funny informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking

Moderate: Physical abuse and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death

peggydean's review against another edition

informative reflective fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Addiction, Animal death, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Self harm

o_w_e_n's review against another edition

adventurous challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Stalking, Mental illness, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Pregnancy and Suicide

realityczar's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Stalking

Minor: Suicide attempt and Cursing

emmakwilkinson's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing

Moderate: Stalking, Animal cruelty, and Mental illness

maxinekelly's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Stalking, and Animal death

zombiezami's review

dark emotional funny hopeful informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

 Over the past few years, I've been making an effort to seek out perspectives from people with heavily stigmatized diagnoses: anti-social personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, etc. I'm very committed to disability justice action, and I think this is an important part of that that often gets overlooked. If we accept that mental illness is a disability, than we have to accept that it's, well, unacceptable to malign specific illnesses and disorders as if people with them are inherently evil. 

As an autistic person, I felt very seen in this book. Like the author, I too have many experiences of people getting angry at me for not having the facial expression/emotional reaction that they expect in a given situation.  I felt the frustration of the author as she tried her best to be honest and fit in, yet people still made assumptions about her and tried to use her. Overall, I thought the book was well written and often hilarious. I highly recommend it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Stalking, and Mental illness

Moderate: Alcohol, Confinement, Bullying, Toxic friendship, Animal cruelty, Infidelity, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Classism, Toxic relationship, and Cursing

Minor: Pregnancy, Murder, Animal death, Suicide, Racism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Forced institutionalization

Eugenics, incarceration

scorpiobookfairy's review

slow-paced

4.0

I don't like to rate memoirs for content because it's someone's life and I don't want to judge... the only reason I took off a star of my normal 5 for all memoirs is redundancy. I felt like I was being hit over the head with a dead fish called "I don't feel emotions like other people"... it needed a little more editing, it could have been told smoother imho.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Animal cruelty, and Mental illness

dr4manrx's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking

Moderate: Animal cruelty