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I liked this way of looking at the mental health system as it collides with the new state hospitals, I mean jails.  The mentally ill have been left to die sick versus get help with forced treatment.  I see both sides to the controversy of forcing a medicating a mentally ill person and having the right to refuse medication.  I come at this as a consumer.  This book shows that the people in jails for crimes while mentally ill get no help.  All that matters is being competent to stand trial, and that is hard enough since many mentally ill inmates go through years-long cycles of treatment in hospitals to jail only to decompensate and return to the hospital and on trepeaat.    This book shows where the lack of treatment turns some cases into lost souls as prolonged lack of treatment has damaged them.  

We also have the journalist's son who enters the system when a psychotic breaks into a home and takes a bubble bath.  How even though clearly seen as mentally ill and unaware that he did anything wrong (or could even identify the location he broke into) he faces court as if he did it in a sane mind.

It really shows the broken system.

Overall, the facts were presented well, and in the audiobook version, the narration was clear and listen-sble.  The way he presented the cases he followed and his son was about the same, like a journal article.  I did not feel overtly emotional in his memoir parts, more like a more in-depth study of the system it just happened to be from his son.  

 Catch, now you have it! This book that is,explaining how some pathogens and disease d are than physically affect the body. It may also Infect the mind ending t symptoms of mental illness.

It was interesting learning about infections that produced symptoms of mental illness. I knew of two coming into this text and left with knowledge of more. The jargn in this book is explained well. The text is not dry. Overall well presented. 

This was interesting in seeing how patriarchy effects men. And how men just want love to but in a patriarchal society love is not what men and boys are getting

This is a no for me.  Maybe not the best way to be introduced to an author but I had issues with the book.  One was the Insta love was hella instant. Eli was basically hello R and then devoted his whole life to her before even knowing her name.  It felt like it was just shoved together as lovers in the same sentence as knowing each of their names.  And Eli's way of wanting Rue from time to time put me more on the worry end not how devoted he is.  He talked about kidnapping her in phrasing that would have me disturbed and not in love with them.   To continue with the love part of this erotica, the sex since was underwhelming (and magical penis? to cure Rue no penetration sex request?)   And they also seemed  (except for the 1st encounter)  stuffed in there- the chemistry between the two is mute.  Just someone obsessed with one that prefers one-night stands


Onto the no-sex side of the book, it could have been described more.  It just seemed like stuff was happening outside of showing us the beginning.  We don't know how the company ran before Eli and his team took over.  It just takes over in place and here is the opening chapter.  

Overall  I didn't like this book

Seeing his book from an older eye  has decreased my love for this book.  This book has a lot of detail on the schooling of wizards with the plot of figuring out about the stone and then so little pages on the action at the end

I am not quite sure what was about this book but I am just not the hugest fan of it.  Our MC Noah, is still known by his girl name.  He is interested in Mothman, a cryptic that he and his trans best friend were interested in.    His friend had died and it was all he had left.  So he writes letters to Mothman as he goes to school, falling behind in work and dead set determined to have Mothman in his science project.  

this is prose poetry and I didn't pick up on that since I listened to the book.   I did like the rep this book had.  ASD rep and LGBT rep, with two characters keeping their identity secret.  Grief is also a theme in this text

It is a well book I just didn't care for it.

This is just surface level even though it states it gets beneath the surface of mental health in teens.  The book is a heavy hitter with depression and anxiety and a touch of PTSD but there is way more than that that a teen could face.  Sure there is mention of bipolar, but not a definition, mention of behavioral problems never defined, other anxiety disorders are not clocked in, and nothing, even a word, on the schizophrenia spectrum disorder is in sight.  It is a very surface level of mental.  It is a quick listen, a little over three hours, but the content is not of any depth.  Some of the suggestions to help MH are all the basics, exercise, a gratitude list, healthy food, and good sleep.  

This book dicuss ways to look into yourself to find happiness in the hectic of life.  It is quick and easy to digest with exercise anecdotal stories come that get a beginning way to think of your purpose and such