Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence by Meg Kissinger

75 reviews

hallie_hey's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide

elisecavanaugh's review

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, and Suicide

Moderate: Alcoholism and Domestic abuse

Minor: Abortion

tonya_barr's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Grief, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

helloashluna's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicide, Antisemitism, and Medical trauma

evawondergem's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

kimberly10murray's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

What a painful yet beautiful story of how mental illness and the era of silence has affected our parents generations and every generation after. This is memoir meets investigative journalism on how people with mental illness were treated in the 80s and 90s and how that can affect the entire family and community. 

If you grew up in a family that was "silent" about any issue this book is great to help walkthrough and process your emotions at that time. 

"The more time i took to consider the trauma we had all been through, the easier i understood that two seemingly contradictory truths can exist simultaneously. My parents could be warm and loving but also reckless and flawed. Our family life could have been happy despite the tragedies"

People are lot more complicated than we give credit, and this has helped me process my parents and upbringing through a new lens. 

Highly recommend! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Suicide

mnholden's review

emotional hopeful informative sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cancer, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

britt_thebookworm's review

challenging emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Mental illness, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

canngrob's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cancer, Death, Mental illness, Suicide, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

Moderate: Addiction, Antisemitism, Car accident, and Abortion

srutiramesh's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Death, Grief, and Death of parent