(Don't) Call Me Crazy
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Beschreibung
Who’s Crazy? What does it mean to be crazy? Is using the word crazy offensive? What happens when a label like that gets attached to your everyday experiences?
To understand mental health, we need to talk openly about it. Because there’s no single definition of crazy, there’s no single experience that embodies it, and the word itself means different things—wild? extreme? disturbed? passionate?—to different people.
In (Don’t) Call Me Crazy, actors, athletes, writers, and artists offer essays, lists, comics, and illustrations that explore a wide range of topics, including: - Their personal experiences with mental illness; - How we do and don’t talk about mental health; - Help for better understanding how every person’s brain is wired differently; - What, exactly, might make someone crazy. If you’ve ever struggled with your mental health, or know someone who has, come on in, turn the pages . . . and let’s get talking.
This award-winning anthology is from the highly-praised editor of Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World and Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy.
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Overall I am quite disappointed because this was not the important and impactful collection I imagined it to be. Most of the essays I found interesting and insightful but there were so incredibly many piece where I did not understand why they're part of this collection. Multiple pieces do not mention mental health at all and even more do not "start a conversation about mental health". I also was very confused on what the intend and the target audience of this collection were: this is advertised as primarily for young adults but there are so many pieces about adult experiences no teenager has experienced yet. I didn't get what some parts were trying to do because they were more autobiographical than advise or conversation starters. Furthermore I do not think this was a well edited collection: there were five chapters with an introduction but no pieces in that chapter related or had anything to do with the set topic of the chapter. There were also a lot of different pieces of media but the same kind was always grouped together, e.g. there are around five illustrations but they're all in the same chapter, never anywhere else just all in one bulk, which made for quite a jarring reading experience. My favorite essay was Coda by Meredith Russo My overall average rating is 2.8⭐️
Beschreibung
Who’s Crazy? What does it mean to be crazy? Is using the word crazy offensive? What happens when a label like that gets attached to your everyday experiences?
To understand mental health, we need to talk openly about it. Because there’s no single definition of crazy, there’s no single experience that embodies it, and the word itself means different things—wild? extreme? disturbed? passionate?—to different people.
In (Don’t) Call Me Crazy, actors, athletes, writers, and artists offer essays, lists, comics, and illustrations that explore a wide range of topics, including: - Their personal experiences with mental illness; - How we do and don’t talk about mental health; - Help for better understanding how every person’s brain is wired differently; - What, exactly, might make someone crazy. If you’ve ever struggled with your mental health, or know someone who has, come on in, turn the pages . . . and let’s get talking.
This award-winning anthology is from the highly-praised editor of Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World and Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy.
Buchinformationen
Beiträge
Overall I am quite disappointed because this was not the important and impactful collection I imagined it to be. Most of the essays I found interesting and insightful but there were so incredibly many piece where I did not understand why they're part of this collection. Multiple pieces do not mention mental health at all and even more do not "start a conversation about mental health". I also was very confused on what the intend and the target audience of this collection were: this is advertised as primarily for young adults but there are so many pieces about adult experiences no teenager has experienced yet. I didn't get what some parts were trying to do because they were more autobiographical than advise or conversation starters. Furthermore I do not think this was a well edited collection: there were five chapters with an introduction but no pieces in that chapter related or had anything to do with the set topic of the chapter. There were also a lot of different pieces of media but the same kind was always grouped together, e.g. there are around five illustrations but they're all in the same chapter, never anywhere else just all in one bulk, which made for quite a jarring reading experience. My favorite essay was Coda by Meredith Russo My overall average rating is 2.8⭐️