Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

The Third Person by Emma Grove

23 reviews

internationalreads's review

dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Child abuse, Deadnaming, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Transphobia, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Alcohol

indeedithappens's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Domestic abuse, Transphobia, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Child abuse, Deadnaming, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Classism

readinghavoc's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

This book was so well done. I loved getting to learn about D.I.D. alongside Emma, and was surprised by how much affection I had for her disparate parts. The art style was really compelling in both its simplicity and the complexity of emotion, action, and thought it was able to convey. The black out boxes were a great choice, especially after reading about the authors process of writing the book. And it was fascinating to see the ways that Emma’s D.I.D. and her queerness interacted with one another. Insightful, captivating, and deeply moving. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Transphobia, and Violence

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, and Alcohol

Minor: Addiction, Deadnaming, and Drug abuse

frozenduck's review

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Grief, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Dysphoria

ferlintokezeirquizes's review

emotional fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Transphobia

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Bullying, Deadnaming, Sexual content, Violence, and Alcohol

arirose's review

I try to remember not to rate memoirs so I won't here but wow. This was such a heavy read at times, even frustrating sometimes, but so worth it. I teared up a few times, but I won't spoil anything so I won't say where. The art style grew on me, especially with the expressions (especially Katina's expressions of in being honest lol). Towards the end, when we saw the pieces come together, was just so good. I loved that. I even loved seeing how Emma pieced everything together (literally!) in the after notes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Bullying and Transphobia

loverofeels's review

5.0

a completely engrossing memoir that i couldn't put down despite its length and the repetitive nature of many of the scenes. highly recommend. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Medical trauma, and Toxic friendship

kitheminges's review

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

This book made me feel seen. Like someone knew what I had been through. Both as a person with DID and a trans person. I finally felt like someone understood. I still haven’t stopped crying

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Deadnaming, Homophobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Transphobia

Moderate: Alcoholism, Deadnaming, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Abandonment

rdebner's review

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Mental illness

The main character (representative of the author) has dissociative identity disorder. A large portion of the book is set in therapy sessions with "Toby" -- and those sessions are fraught, partly due to "Toby's" inexperience with D.I.D. and partly due to what seem to be poor boundaries and unprofessional behavior.

fish17's review

emotional informative reflective tense fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Transphobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Alcoholism and Alcohol