Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

El tapiz amarillo by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

330 reviews

mikathereviewer's review against another edition

informative reflective relaxing medium-paced

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

4.0

After deciding to read it, but didn't for about four times I finally read it. I wasn't sure when the right time was to read it. But I'm pretty sure that this book is about Schizophrenia, a mental illness that I think to be quite interesting. 

The book isn't that long, but that is what makes this book perfect. It doesn't just gives the reader a good message in few words, but also symbolises how fast a mental illness can take power over you before you see it coming. The wallpaper and how it was described was very interesting. While reading it got more and more intense. Showing how much faster the Schizophrenia spreads into the brain, when something triggers it.

"The color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is torturing."

As someone who thinks that mental illnesses (especially the hallucinating ones) are interesting to know more about I enjoyed this book a lot.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Gaslighting

Moderate: Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Death, Self harm, Suicide, and Medical content

mr_parp0's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This is so well crafted and the style is a pleasure to read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Forced institutionalization

gandalf_a's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Mental illness, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

melluzyne's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness

jamiexr0se's review against another edition

challenging tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness

helsbelles's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

pencilspeaker's review against another edition

reflective tense

5.0

one of my all time favorite short stories. gonna be re-reading this again and again. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Misogyny, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Gaslighting

maddie_lewis28's review against another edition

dark reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Frankly I have no idea what to rate this. I “picked this up” (borrowed it from the library on my kindle) because I had to read a book with a color in the title for a challenge so I searched my “want to read” for every color and this looked intriguing. I was honestly a little sad when I found out it was a short story and not a full book. Wow this was something though. Very thought provoking and just…I don’t even know. I can’t believe this was published in 1892. In school I always hated reading older books because they never made sense to me and were so hard to read but this wasn’t bad at all. The writing style and format of the book was interesting and seeing the mc slowly devolve into madness was interesting. This is a little out there but I would definitely recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

lovesagespages's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

trashpossum's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness