Reviews tagging 'Panic attacks/disorders'

Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin

435 reviews

jewellelizabeth's review against another edition

dark sad slow-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Religious bigotry, and Suicide attempt

lilliee's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

lrgreenb's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Death

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide

keightychandelier's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Wonderful and thoughtfully written book about death and finding meaning in the face of its inevitability. Also, very funny. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, and Alcohol

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

smilingzombiess's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

As someone who struggles with the same things Gilda does, I found this book oddly comforting. Not only that, but it never failed to keep me in suspense! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Stalking, Outing, and Alcohol

Minor: Self harm, Vomit, Dementia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, and Toxic friendship

orlagal's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Outing, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

anafora159's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicidal thoughts

lynnietakalele's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Looooooved the main character! She was so honest. I felt like it was surely a good representation of what anxiety and depression could feel like. Such loving other characters, too. Well, not the parents, though! They were awful. But all the characters were portrayed so honestly and directly, no extra fluff or nuance. The mystery was just enough to make a good plot, but did not overshadow the characters, whose lives were the real focus.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

hizz's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

I don't know why everyone says this book is funny. It is not. It portrays anxiety and dread quite realistically and the very bleak reality of it. If you have anxiety already, it will give you more of it, but you will also feel seen. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

chrisljm's review

funny reflective sad fast-paced

• 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? Yes

4.5

Not the most uplifting book but I did find it fascinating and a bit profound. I loved the dry humor and being able to see Gilda's thought process and, while depressing, the very unique way she views the world. I'm filled with a sad sort of empathy for Gilda and the way anxiety impacts her, but I'm also left stunned at the heartbreaking beauty that shines through Emily Austin's prose. 

For example, there's one instance in the novel where Gilda recounts how through the difficulty she faces to feel happy, the only recent time she can remember being so is when she watched a movie with her girlfriend. She then proceeds to contemplate the role Catholicism plays in peoples lives, and theorizes that it's a solution to existential dread, how it's comforting to imagine we have loved ones waiting for us afterwards, that there is someone in this life who watches over us and loves us, and that perhaps it gives our lives meaning. But as someone who's queer, "it's ironic that a belief system theoretically created to help me feel safe and meaningful takes away one of the few things that makes me feel like my life is worth living at all." 

Another instance occurs on Gilda's 28th birthday where she ruminates just how long she's existed: in days, in months, in the years of other parts of this planetary system. "I read once that women are born with all the eggs that they will ever produce in their life. That means the egg that formed me is as old as my mother. From that perspective, part of me is fifty-one."

Gilda is so introspective, in ways that I am not, and despite being left with this tender sadness, I appreciate that I now have this to reflect on. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Mental illness, Vomit, Alcohol, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Murder, Lesbophobia, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Bullying, Self harm, Dementia, and Cannibalism