Tag Archives: mental illness
An UnderratedRead Revisited: Torment: A Novella – H.D. Hunter
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “I wish I could tell them how hard it was. How hard it still is. I wish I could tell them that just because a person doesn’t understand what it means to be broken doesn’t mean … Continue reading
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Tagged mental illness, modern literary fiction, short books
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The Woman in the Park -Teresa Sorkin , Tullan Holmqvist
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “Thérèse, residing in damp obscurity, in gloomy, crushing silence, saw life expand before her in all its nakedness, each night bringing the same cold couch, and each morn the same empty day.” “But inwardly, she lived … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Mystery and Thrillers, Romance
Tagged mental illness, mystery, PTSD
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Revisited: The Pursuit of Ordinary – Nigel Jay Cooper
(Reviewed by JD Jung) The Pursuit of Ordinary has been announced as a finalist in The People’s Book Prize for Fiction. Congratulations, Nigel! “With me inside him, he didn’t feel dislocated like he used to. It was like he was … Continue reading
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Tagged ADULT FICTION, book reviews, British literature, mental illness
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Exile On Second Avenue – James P. Walsh
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “What was I waiting for, it would be so freeing to slide so gently from the pain of this place, into the quiet comfort of the unknown, just like him. With every passing moment my grip … Continue reading
Posted in Modern Literary Fiction, Skinny reads
Tagged depression, mental illness, suicide
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Torment: A Novella – H.D. Hunter
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “I wish I could tell them how hard it was. How hard it still is. I wish I could tell them that just because a person doesn’t understand what it means to be broken doesn’t mean … Continue reading
Posted in Modern Literary Fiction, Skinny reads
Tagged coming-of-age, mental illness
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Lunacy and Death: A perspective developed over thirty years of working in mental health and death investigation – Tom Dombrock
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “They plant little beasties in your psyche that love nothing more than to dart out from the holes they’ve bored into your brain, race around inside your skull, flipping switches, overturning tables, and playing the stereo … Continue reading
Posted in Bios and Memoirs, Non-fiction
Tagged death, mental illness, Non-fiction
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The Pursuit of Ordinary – Nigel Jay Cooper
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “With me inside him, he didn’t feel dislocated like he used to. It was like he was back in tune with the world, experiencing real, solid emotions for the first time in years.” Joe was … Continue reading
Posted in Modern Literary Fiction
Tagged ADULT FICTION, book reviews, British literature, fiction, mental illness
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Despair to Deliverance: A True Story of Triumph Over Severe Mental Illness Kindle Edition by Sharon DeVinney Ph.D., Robin Personette
(Reviewed by Jeyran Main) Psychotherapist Sharon DeVinney Ph.D. has been working with Robin since 1993. Robin suffers from anxiety, depression, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder. She also has suicidal thoughts that she initially does not reveal to Sharon. Despair to Deliverance, … Continue reading
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Tagged bipolar disorder, depression, memoirs, mental illness
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Freshwater – Akwaeke Emezi
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “…when we said she went mad, we lied. She has always been sane. It’s just that she was contaminated with us, a godly parasite with many heads, roaring inside the marble room of her mind.” Ada, … Continue reading
Posted in African Literature, World Literature
Tagged folklore, mental illness, Nigeria, split personality disorder
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A NIGHT IN JAIL: A story about drugs and mental illness, inspired by true events – H.A. Swan, K. Anderson
Reviewed by JD Jung) “One day, marijuana is going to be legalized and this “punishment” will all be for nothing.” Yes, getting pulled over while high was the first “Reality Rush”. The second one came when his parents refused to … Continue reading
Posted in Modern Literary Fiction
Tagged book reviews. fiction, marijuana, mental illness, paranoia, Schizophrenia, Seattle
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