Reviews with content warning for Mental illness - The Collected Schizophrenias

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The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang

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sjbshannon's review

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dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.0

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newgene's review

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informative medium-paced

3.5

I enjoyed reading this book for another lived perspective about the psychotic experience, but fall short of a good rating and hesitate to recommend it for some troubling opinions in the book. The author focuses a lot on differentiating herself as “high functioning,” beyond admission of privilege, and there was a lot of othering in the book. There were also some victim blaming remarks that implied police officers and hospitals have an excuse for cruelty towards some people living with psychosis. Overall there were some interesting observations made about living with psychosis in an ableist society, but I really think the author has some growing to do. If it is not triggering for you I recommend reading it with a grain of salt.

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aweekinthelife's review against another edition

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emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.5

Esmé Weijun Wang describes her mental health and chronic illness journey with candor and sharp writing. her stories helped me understand a little more of what it looks like for her to live with a mental illness interspersed with historical origins of things.

some [books] written in such lousy prose that I believed I was killing off brain cells faster than either schizoaffective disorder or trauma could;

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vercopaanir's review

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emotional informative reflective slow-paced

Again, this book is very much like a memoir and so I choose to leave it un-rated, but I was fascinated by Wang’s experiences and really appreciated that she was willing to share them so publicly as to write them in a book. I do my best not to be ableist, but I know I have work to do, and that includes ableism around psychosis and the schizophrenias. Being invited into the mind of someone with schizoaffective disorder was an incredible opportunity for learning and growth.

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sunn_bleach's review

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challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

Kinda lost me on the last two chapters on the mysticism side. That stuff is just nonsense. But as someone who identifies with a history of PTSD and ADHD, I have a ton of appreciation for every other part of this book. Especially discussions on having children, the ephemera of diagnoses, etc. Awesome and recommended reading for most.

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tetedump's review

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challenging informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

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mzynda's review

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emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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caidyn's review

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emotional hopeful medium-paced

4.5

Damn, I hate that I put off reading this book for so long. It was a fantastic read about a woman learning to live with schizoaffective disorder.

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sofipitch's review

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dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

I saw some people saying that they didn't this the essays were personal enough, which I thought they were deeply personal and some were a little difficult to read for my own reasons. I can see why Wang might put up some distance, she is not your spectacle

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schnanko's review

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challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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