Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

I'm a Terminal Cancer Patient, But I'm Fine. by Hilnama

5 reviews

borrowmybookjacket's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Cancer, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Child abuse, Physical abuse, and Mental illness

Minor: Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, and Pandemic/Epidemic

litematcha's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cancer, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Vomit, Excrement, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Mental illness

Minor: Infertility and Pandemic/Epidemic

yaoipaddle's review

emotional funny reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

The book was a lot more charming and sweet than I expected. I loved seeing Hilnama’s little asides and thoughts. As a Touken Ranbu fan I loved the references to it too. 

She is very vulnerable but still really shows her love for the people that matter to her. It’s nice to see how much empathy she has for people around her even while she’s going through something difficult herself. 

There is a good mix of info about cancer diagnosis and treatment as well as just her daily life and relationships. I never felt that it was trying to make me feel sad or inspired or any crap like that. 

I knew I’d give it 5 stars even before I went and found out Hilnama ended up passing away, so rest assured this is not some pity rating. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Mental illness, Cancer, Child abuse, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Sexual content

benediction's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Medical content, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Cancer, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Vomit, Mental illness, Sexual content, and Blood

Minor: Infertility, Excrement, Death, and Grief

xangemthelibrarian's review

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

Wow. I... This manga seriously made me feel like a slab of meat pummeled by a meat tenderizer... It just hit so many sore spots for me and ultimately, I feel so close to this author who doesn't even know I exist. 

Let me start by saying that about halfway through the manga, I looked up Hilnama, because I really like her art style and I wanted to see if anything else she's written was translated into English. I wasn't successful in finding other series by her, but I did find out she passed away at home on December 16, 2022. And I've only been her fan for a day, and her personal memoir touched me so much that I'm grieving her loss. I hope someone checks on her husband. According to the manga, he really struggles with depression, and I just really hope someone keeps him company while he's grieving her.

Hilnama's story resonated a lot for me. She walked away from an abusive family and found a home in her in-laws. She worried a lot about unwelcome visits from her parents, or even that they would find out when she did not want them to. She worried about her husband, who had to pick up almost all of the housework because she was unable to do any of it anymore with how weak she was. 

And then in the afterword, she celebrated officially being in remission as of December 2020. It's not clear why she passed, but she made it two years after remission. I'm not completely sure what year she was diagnosed, but she definitely made it longer than the doctor's original estimate of 30 months! 

It just makes me so sad to read this the day after she passed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Medical content, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Child abuse and Mental illness

Side note: You can tell she's an erotica author. The background sound effects and some of the illustrations are veryyyyy telling lol