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Todas las esquizofrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang

18 reviews

emilianeyer's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.5

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alysereadsbooks's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.25

I loved this book- it gave me a lot of insight about schizophrenia and it’s an important take on mental health.
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moonyreadsbystarlight's review against another edition

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informative reflective

4.5

This was an excellent essay collection about the author's experience of schizoaffective and bipolar disorders. She talks about her experience of it, parts of the process getting diagnoses, dealing with ableism in various contexts, spirituality, media, and more. Not only does it show the mind of the author in some ways, it says a lot about how people with these less socially acceptable symptoms and disorders are treated.

The only real drawback of this was some of the discussion around autism in one of the essays. It felt very dated and I'm not sure how to feel about some of the discussion around functioning labels. So that is why I didn't give it a full 5 stars. The rest of the collection was really solid and very interesting. 
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glitterypiggies's review against another edition

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emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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creativerunnings's review against another edition

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challenging informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

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hmetwade's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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maddiekeefe's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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literarylion's review against another edition

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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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flordemaga's review against another edition

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emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

A beautiful, self-reflective, self-aware book about how hard it is to exist when mentally ill, but about how easy it is, too. Very insightful and honest, two qualities I like in a book. Asks many thought-provoking questions, to the mentally ill and non-mentally ill  alike, to the schizo-affectives/typal/phrenic (and adjacents) and the nonpsychotic alike. 

The font is nice and angular, on the print copy I read. I like that, too. 
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eve81's review against another edition

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informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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