Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green
158 reviews
abigailbat's review against another edition
Moderate: Fire/Fire injury and Mental illness
Minor: Death and Child death
luisaaaa's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Mental illness
lettuce_read's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Mental illness
Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders and Pandemic/Epidemic
Minor: Cancer
brookey8888's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Cancer, Grief, Death, and Mental illness
erin22's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Medical content and Mental illness
Minor: Panic attacks/disorders
novella42's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic, Fire/Fire injury, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Mental illness
Moderate: Grief and Chronic illness
totallybookedforlife's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Grief
Moderate: Mental illness, Death, and Cancer
marsspider42's review against another edition
4.0
This book will make you want to cry about things you have never before heard about. I think the audiobook version would be fantastic. Recommended to anyone who likes trivia and genuine love of the world.
Moderate: Mental illness and Medical content
streberkatze's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Cancer, Mental illness, and Animal death
mariekejee's review against another edition
5.0
This book came out in 2021 and is a clear product of the covid-19 pandemic. Certain pieces definitely hit harder when I started reading it two years ago, but they don't lose their importance in any case.
I cried reading this book on holiday so often that, had my family not already been aware of my spotty mental health, they surely would have started to worry. The essays on googling strangers and the movie Harvey especially had me emotional. John Green is a bit of a romantic, but he's very clearly not romanticizing (mental) illness. In the dry, honest way he talks about being ill, I find myself being comforted and given hope.
Struggling with mental health isn't something that is supposed to give another outlook on life that will change your world, it just is something you will have to live with, something that will sometimes suck. But despite this, Green's writing gives me hope that better things are coming, not because, but in spite of what I may be dealing with.
I have loved every moment of reading this book. No doubt my experience is changed because I was already familiar with John Green both as a writer and a person (which made it very easy to read it in his voice), but most of the essays touched me. They were deeply personal, and in the way that many of the anxieties and thoughts and feelings were easy to relate to, became personal to me too.
I hope Green decides to return to non-fiction sometime in the future, but for now I will probably be re-reading some of these essays for a long time.
Moderate: Mental illness