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Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation by Camonghne Felix
56 reviews
imjumokay's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Drug use, Infidelity, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, and Alcohol
Moderate: Incest, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Abortion, and Suicide attempt
Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Gaslighting, and Abandonment
lunabbly's review
5.0
At first glance a lot of the passages look like word vomit, making grand leaps from one thought to the next. But truly it is gorgeous writing. It is beautiful, chaotic, terrifying reflections of heartache, love, romance, and self torture. Felix also interweaves her bipolar diagnosis and discovery -- one that revolved around her childhood trauma of CSA, as well as her mother not quite understanding on behalf of Camonghne but in the ways that mothers can and want to.
The descriptions of loving X are so vivid. It is so sweet. So gentle. But the chaotic falling out, the cheating, the absence, the abortion that Camonghne gets without telling him which results in his temper tantrum and distance, it is all so absorbing. It's so relatable. We've all been in those relationships where we loved someone so deeply and couldn't give our full selves to this person. Couldn't be 100% vulnerable, couldn't commit the way this person wanted us to. We had different dreams at the end of the day. Even though we loved this person. Even though this person loved us endlessly, unconditionally and it made us feel so good about being loved.
The heartache was so palpable I cried multiple times.
... how I let his love be my field of discovery, the green of his want tortured with the marks of my prancing, how I let self-obsession be an acid that corrodes the denim of a big heavy heart.
Thank you Camonghne for this beautiful memoir of the greatest heartbreak. Thank you for treating yourself with much kindness and accountability for your actions. I so appreciated every word of this memoir.
Graphic: Mental illness and Sexual harassment
Moderate: Child abuse, Abortion, and Abandonment
greenleafclarke's review
3.25
Graphic: Self harm
Moderate: Mental illness and Forced institutionalization
Minor: Sexual assault
fspikener's review
5.0
Graphic: Self harm and Suicide
Moderate: Mental illness
alltyedup's review against another edition
3.5
Minor: Biphobia, Drug use, Mental illness, Rape, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Grief, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting
_aurora_'s review against another edition
Graphic: Mental illness and Self harm
csmoke85's review
5.0
Moderate: Infidelity, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Abortion, Suicide attempt, and Gaslighting
phrasecollector13___'s review
3.0
So, I threw myself into this reading thinking: this going to be a funny novel... was I wrong? A 100%. This book is not a novel, it's actually a memoir about a woman's experience with mental illness.
Her emotional disturbance started when she was a child due surviving sexual assault. From there she writes about how her mental disorder develops and how it impacts her daily life and her education. And this is the challenging part of the reading: her youth and adulthood. If it was a stressful for me to read it, I can't imagine the author's and her family stress during that period of her family.
Did I like the book? No, but I did enjoy it. The part I enjoyed the most was about the author's experience as a psychiatrist patient and how she was seen as a sexual and self-harm survivor experience, and how confusing and intense the mind can feel when it's disturbed. And some moments with mom were excellent: advocating for her child through the whole appointments, asking what was really wrong with her child when professionals were given her 5 different diagnosis, talking about how the medication is not working for her child, and preparing her child to the mental battle she would experience in her life and that she would have that fight by herself. Been a psychiatrist patient is brutal, specially when the so called "professionals" that are supposed to help you are not empath, and they believe they are the patient's professional, when only the patient can describe the experience of having a mental disorder. The only professional about yourself it's you.
I think the book deceive me into thinking this would be a story of mental health and the journey to heal old and new wounds (which... kind of was), but I started the reading with the idea of fiction, not a memoir. I believe that might have affected my experience with the reading. Also: I wanted to read more about how she was uncovering her feelings, how she was accepting and worked with them, but, since this is a memoir, a personal experience, maybe she didn't felt comfortable sharing it in the book and that was okay.
Side note: I didn't knew dyscalculia was actually a psychiatric disorder!
Graphic: Self harm
Moderate: Mental illness and Sexual assault
bookishbrenbren's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Drug use, Infidelity, Rape, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, and Alcohol
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Mental illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Abortion
pamslibros's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Child abuse, Mental illness, and Self harm