Reviews tagging 'Panic attacks/disorders'

Being Lolita: A Memoir by Alisson Wood

10 reviews

madelinequinne's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

3.75

A hard and heartbreaking memoir to get through, but so important. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Blood, Child abuse, Rape, Pedophilia, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Bullying, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Body shaming, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Self harm

elkiebear's review against another edition

dark sad

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, and Gaslighting

librarymouse's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

Alisson Wood's accounts of her youth and struggles with mental health are incredibly tangible and relatable. The way she writes, weaving the narrative of how she was told to perceive her being groomed by her teacher, with the reality of the situation and the storyline in the novel Lolita make for very engaging storytelling without trivializing the memories and issues she explores. To use Lolita as a lense, framed as a love story, through which to view their relationship and then recommend Alisson go to school for English implies that Nick Norris either profoundly stupid or incredibly vain.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Vomit, Body shaming, Infidelity, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Sexual assault, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexism

lostinpaperbacks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense

4.0

I came across this book after reading My Dark Vanessa a few months ago, I was intrigued and heard good things about this one.   There were so many similarities it was uncanny, but this is an actual memoir. Ironically enough, I enjoyed the fictionalized My Dark Vanessa a tad more.  This memoir is completely consuming---I finished it in a matter of hours! About an hour and a half to be exact. Ms. Wood manages to handle such delicate topics and complicated emotions with effortless ability. Not once does she idealize her abuser, even in her reflections of her past, but she still manages to give the reader a sense of how easily a situation can spiral and how quickly innocence can be stolen with the right words and actions. This was a good read, but it harped just a little too much on Lolita's book. I've never read it, so these passages did not speak to me and became a bit monotonous. So, I've read two eerily similar books in a short amount of time, and apparently, there is a sickening formula to this kind of inappropriate seduction of a minor student. Definitely read the TWS before reading this but overall thank you to Allison Wood for putting her story out into this world.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, and Rape

igfromero's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

wolfiereads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship

breadwitchery's review

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Rape, Pedophilia, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, and Alcohol

Moderate: Self harm, Suicide attempt, Body shaming, Panic attacks/disorders, and Vomit

Minor: Cursing

jmcordero's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Grief, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, and Sexism

litltlehistorian's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful fast-paced

3.25

<spoilers> 
This book was a reflection on the child abuse of a girl in her late teens. A testament to the past and a way to move forward. Unfortunately, my critiscm of this book would be the romanticisation of some aspects (I understand this was from her perspective), as well as the surface level analysis of mental health and sexual abuse. Overall, this was still a very personal journey from the author whose story I would not discredit. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Body shaming and Bullying

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Stalking, and Toxic relationship

cossenbeck's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, Rape, Emotional abuse, and Panic attacks/disorders