Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

How to Be Ace: A Memoir of Growing Up Asexual by Rebecca Burgess

52 reviews

melsage1823's review

emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Acephobia/Arophobia

Moderate: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

a_win_in_clear_rain's review

emotional hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness and Acephobia/Arophobia

Minor: Sexual assault and Sexual violence

eloise648's review

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Acephobia/Arophobia

readandfindout's review

informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

Style/writing: 4 stars
Themes: 4 stars
Perspective: 4.5 stars
Art: 4 stars

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Acephobia/Arophobia

Moderate: Bullying

Minor: Domestic abuse, Rape, and Sexual harassment

the_vegan_bookworm's review

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.75

A great read about a autistic and asexual person living with OCD, and the ways that they came to understand their identity. The artwork is great, the narrative is strong and I think that folks who share those lived experiences will see themselves represented.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Acephobia/Arophobia

Minor: Rape and Sexual assault

cedar_wood's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.5

Wow, it's kind of scary how much the author and I have in common. It was really comforting to learn how they were able to survive and forge out a happy life despite experiencing ocd and emetophobia. And their experience being asexual was very relatable. It made me grateful that I grew up in a time where it was easier to stumble upon resources about asexuality through the internet. I kind of wish that there was more to the book, because sometimes it felt like I was missing information. But overall I really liked it! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Acephobia/Arophobia, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

annikthegaycat's review

emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

alisonannk's review

emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Sexual content, and Acephobia/Arophobia

Minor: Eating disorder

mockingjayx16's review

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted relaxing fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Mental illness

Moderate: Drug use and Alcohol

Minor: Sexual assault, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

londonfog_13's review

emotional hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

One artist’s journey exploring and coming to understand their asexuality. Almost equal time and space seems to be given to their experience as a person with OCD and how they managed the symptoms of anxiety and panic. 

There were some pages or scenes within a chapter where there was a quick transition and I went looking for the missing page or whatever I missed, but I had in fact not missed anything. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Acephobia/Arophobia