Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

The Forgotten Girls: An American Story by Monica Potts

10 reviews

vroomvroomvrose's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Minor: Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Car accident, and Death of parent

aimebo's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

milliebrierley's review against another edition

dark reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Car accident, and Death of parent

rchatterjee188's review

emotional hopeful informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Self harm, Grief, and Car accident

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

Minor: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Hate crime, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Rape, Forced institutionalization, Abortion, Murder, Abandonment, Colonisation, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

mondovertigo's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Misogyny, Grief, Religious bigotry, Car accident, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Racism and Pregnancy

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Abortion

cghegan's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Car accident, and Alcohol

Minor: Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Grief, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, and Abandonment

bschweig717's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

This was a heartbreaking, illuminating, and vulnerable piece of memoir. I am thankful to have read it. I feel like I saw myself in many of the people in it at times. It was heartbreaking and also illuminating about the importance of community for each of us to thrive.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicide, Grief, Abandonment, and Alcohol

rootedreader's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for a copy to read. 
Monica Potts sets out to investigate the causes of poverty, specifically the poverty of women from rural areas of America. Overall I enjoyed this book, one of my top genres to read is investigative journalism. Though listed as memoir, my experience reading this was somewhere in the middle. Connecting several systemic issues, she describes a situation that leaves many opportunities for someone to "fall into" and stay in poverty. The memoir side of the book was a bit difficult for me. Comparing her and her best friend's life choices it came across as judgmental-towards her friend as well as the town. The last chapter or two threw me for a loop as well as (*SPOILER*) she moved back to that same town she spent the whole book criticizing.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, and Mental illness

debussy's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

I am a white woman not far off from the author’s age and grew up in the Arkansas Ozarks. So much of this book felt like reading about my own life—the relentless isolation, conservatism, and xenophobia of the area as well as the driving need to leave it while developing a strange, complicated relationship with it afterward are so on point. The way the area is a deeply messed up patriarchy steeped with religion makes women scapegoats—there to be blamed or used by the men who have little in their lives except the ability to control others. This is a sad, compelling, and unfortunately accurate portrait of a place I still love. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Car accident, Toxic friendship, and Classism

Moderate: Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Misogyny, Xenophobia, Death of parent, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Miscarriage and Physical abuse

sjanke2's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, and Car accident

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Medical content, and Death of parent