Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

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

50 reviews

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

bornglamorous's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Suicide attempt, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

hellokaley's review

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

2.5

This memoir is raw and does not skirt around mental illness and the impact when left untreated and unsupported. The way this was written combined the story of the author’s family in with historical facts and details of some of the articles she has written on the topic. Although I found the history of mental health in America details to be really interesting, I found most of the memoir to be painfully detailed and long. There were so many characters and I felt the level of detail and random stories didn’t connect well into the plot. I almost DNFed at 80%, but carried on. 

There were parts of the story that I’ll think about and many things that resonated, but all in all, I think it desperately needed editing and I wish it were 3-4 hours shorter. This won’t be one I will personally recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Alcohol

heharding's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

katreena's review

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Very raw! 
This memoir explorers a lot of the uncomfortable feelings that people don't talk about having when in a mentally ill family. The author doesn't sugarcoat suicide and shows the real emotions for multiple sides. The author is a journalist so it's very well written and informative sections. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Antisemitism, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, and Alcohol

reenum's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Suicide and Suicide attempt

bleeblee's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide and Suicide attempt

kiminohon's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Addiction

Minor: Violence and Abortion