Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

README.Txt: A Memoir by Chelsea Manning

11 reviews

spike1478's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

This book was a very interesting read about a amazing women. It was sad at times but it was written in such a way that it made you feel like you were there with her.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Confinement, Deadnaming, Death, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Transphobia, Forced institutionalization, Abandonment, Dysphoria, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape

annoyedhumanoid's review against another edition

dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

intensely readable but i would have liked more. fuck the DOD for the redactions. the craziest part is that they PUT HER BACK IN JAIL for another year, not mentioned in the book. the injustice she faced/faces is so flagrant you almost forget the US has a constitution meant to protect against it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Dysphoria, and War

Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Gun violence, Racism, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Murder, Outing, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Deadnaming, Drug use, Sexual content, Xenophobia, and Blood

nevial's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Homophobia, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Outing, Alcohol, and War

eli99's review against another edition

dark emotional informative fast-paced

4.0

Every young civilian working on DOD contracts should read this especially if they're LGBT. 

Very insightful to something that was going at the same time as my youth that I didn't understand at the time. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Deadnaming, Homophobia, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Transphobia, Police brutality, Suicide attempt, Outing, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, and War

cxfvsion's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Suicide attempt, Dysphoria, and War

rachbake's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Islamophobia, Suicide attempt, Outing, Dysphoria, and War

nibs's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative medium-paced

4.75

I read this as the March book for a queer lit bookclub. 
This book made me think. I knew the US military was cooked, but seeing the insideous and complicated ways this played out in Chelsea's life was something else. I really respected her writing - she was honest about her flaws and actions, including negative things. She's a real human and she'd explain the emotions behind these actions - not to gain sympathy but as a fact-based explanation on what lead to those actions. 
She got to tell her own story, something she mentions throughout the book as being important to her.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Transphobia, Outing, Dysphoria, and War

cimmalex's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective tense slow-paced

2.25

I’m not sure what was going on with the narration, but you could tell where a passage started and stopped. Whoever did the editing did a really poor job. It kind of ruined the listening experience

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Deadnaming, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Grief, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Dysphoria, and War

lowbrowhighart's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Suicide attempt, Dysphoria, and War

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Deadnaming, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Police brutality, Outing, and Alcohol

Minor: Animal death, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Medical content, and Gaslighting

maddb_96's review against another edition

dark informative inspiring mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, and War

Minor: Bullying, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Transphobia, Police brutality, Mass/school shootings, and Suicide attempt