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ggcd1981's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Abandonment, Death, Emotional abuse, Child death, Sexual assault, Confinement, Medical content, Grief, Rape, and Suicide
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Death of parent, and Child abuse
ecandrews0's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
3.75
Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Cursing, Sexual assault, Suicide, Death, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Mental illness
readwithbells's review against another edition
4.0
I think if I thought more about the implications of the entity and the story’s ending itself, I might have some more complicated feelings about the story and its discussion of mental illness, but I think the author did his best to approach mental illness and psychiatric wards with an empathetic eye and in the end,
Fun for what it was! Definitely unsettling, definitely creepy, certainly earns its title of horror. I went into this expecting absolutely nothing and was pleasantly surprised.
Graphic: Confinement, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide, Medical content, Rape, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Emotional abuse, and Forced institutionalization
Moderate: Suicide attempt
ariel_wolf's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
The twist was kinda uncomfortable since we are following the story of a new doctor and his patient at an asylum in the early 2000s.
Graphic: Body horror, Animal death, Child abuse, Violence, Toxic relationship, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Physical abuse, Forced institutionalization, Death, Blood, Ableism, Abandonment, Bullying, Child death, Suicide, Sexual assault, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Medical content, Grief, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, and Confinement
reneebkreviews's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
Graphic: Dementia, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Sexual assault, Bullying, Confinement, Death of parent, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Suicide, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Forced institutionalization, and Self harm
creativereflex's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Confinement and Forced institutionalization
Moderate: Abandonment, Child abuse, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Suicide, and Emotional abuse
Minor: Alcohol, Drug use, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Animal cruelty, and Animal death
the_escapist's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Gore, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Self harm, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Rape
Minor: Pedophilia and Incest
madarauchiha's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
1.0
Oh boy. I can't tell if it reflect poorly on me or the author when I recognized this book as pretty much reddit nosleep form levels of quality. And you know what? The author confirms that it is basically a cleaned up copy of something posted to the nosleep form.
"Finally, thank you to every Reddit user who up-voted this story when it made its debut in December of 2015. Without you, The Patient would never have been finished. Without you, it would not be where it is today. Without you, I would be a different man. From the bottom of my heart, thank you."
It was... ok. It was creepy, it was competent, there was in fact some levels of horror. Albeit gross out gore horror. It could use some polish, theres something interesting here. but otherwise, it's unexceptional.
The psychiatric institutions sure is accurate on how fucking incompetent the entire mental illness industry is. The psychiatry parts, as others mentioned, are incredibly weak and inaccurate. The book makes a game of how far you can suspend any disbelief or maintain any good humor towards the plot. The parts about paranoid schizophrenia and DID [dissociative identity disorder] are ableist, evil, and cruel to be portrayed like this. It genuinely undermined the entire story.
I don't care to read anything else by this author after reading this.
content warnings:
minor gun violence, suicide, police brutality,
animal hunting
medium child abuse, self harm, antisemitism, slurs, injuries, bone fractures, child death, incest, csa, pedophilia, rape, sexual violence, suicide, self harm, sharps,
major psychiatric institutions, ableism, ableism towards paranoid schizophrenia, blood, unsanitary, domestic abuse, child abuse, torture, medium animal cruelty, animal death, gore, blood, incest, csa, pedophilia, ableism towards DID, mental illness
Graphic: Ableism, Animal death, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Incest, Medical content, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual violence
Moderate: Antisemitism, Child abuse, Child death, Incest, Racial slurs, Rape, Self harm, Sexual violence, and Suicide attempt
Minor: Gun violence, Police brutality, and Suicide
maddmadds's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Blood, Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Incest, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, and Sexual assault
mackenzi's review against another edition
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.25
Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Rape, Physical abuse, Mental illness, and Child abuse
Moderate: Forced institutionalization and Physical abuse
Minor: Excrement, Violence, Torture, and Suicide