Reviews tagging 'Panic attacks/disorders'

The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang

10 reviews

literarylion's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

Pros:

• a good and necessary perspective on serious mental illness and its perception in society
• definitely a story that hasn't been told before

Cons:

• It got progressively more trite 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide attempt, and Chronic illness

ocean's review

emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

machinations's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Child death, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Sexual violence and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Blood

eshdho's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Sexual assault

ellaschalski's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Ableism, Chronic illness, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Suicide

rowanbg's review

emotional informative reflective fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Ableism, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Self harm, Rape, Panic attacks/disorders, and Medical content

marigo1ds's review

emotional informative medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

skudiklier's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

This book was really interesting, and I both feel for the author and feel like I learned a lot. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Medical content, and Death

Moderate: Sexual assault and Rape

shakakan's review

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

emilybolivia's review

informative slow-paced

4.0

Ms Wang shares deeply personal stories from her lived experience alongside facts and figures about mental health diagnoses and treatments.  I was overwhelmed by her bravery to share so openly and thankful for her efforts to break down stigma.  

I think that this work could have benefited from better editing.  Many of the essays jumped around a lot and I didn’t have a strong sense of what she was trying to convey.  Others were much more effective, I think the best organized and executed was The Choice of Children.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Rape and Emotional abuse