Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel

12 reviews

drymice's review against another edition

slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Mental illness

lucylou's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

3.0

Bechdel’s contentious relationship with her mother  made me feel sad and seen, but the amount of psychoanalysis really made this book drag. I found my eyes glazing over a few times with the amount of quotes and references to psychoanalyst Wincott. Loved all the references to Virginia Woolf!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Infidelity

casdelvo's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Sexual content

Moderate: Infidelity and Gaslighting

aardwyrm's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

4.0

Dense, meandering, and full of references to philosophy and psychology, none of which are strikes against but which give this book a very different tone than Fun Home. Most of the allusions happened to click for me, but it might be hard to follow if you weren't a kid who grew up on Dr Seuss's Sleep Book and had just been reading Virginia Woolf.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Vomit, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Lesbophobia

mcsuggett's review

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

This graphic novel was part memoir and part psychology course. This is a book I could definitely reread because I'm sure that there are details I didn't pick up on the first time, and there's plenty more to understand in the psychoanalysis parts. There's a lot of jargon that can be tricky to tread through. The story also jumps back and forth a lot, going from present to past to even farther past to therapy sessions about the present to quotes from psychoanalysts to quotes from Virginia Woolf. I would like to read this again after reading To The Lighthouse.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Sexual content and Death of parent

aishaalthani's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Suicide, and Death of parent

emilymdxn's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Mental illness

Minor: Suicide

snappingbats's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

Dense with psychology/psychiatry references, with a refreshingly large and sometimes obtuse vocabulary compared to some of the stuff I've read recently. I enjoyed its down-to-earth everyday happenings, described in big words, and the intense analyzation of emotions, abuse & neglect, the processing of that, and the decision to move forward in hope. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Suicide, and Grief

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Animal death, Car accident, and Abortion

greydaze's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Mental illness, Suicide, and Vomit

alainam's review against another edition

dark emotional funny inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Mental illness, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders and Grief