Mental Illness – Page 6 – Trigger Warning Database

Affiliations, Aliens, and Other Profitable Pursuits by Lyn Gala

A desire for status has brought Ondry and Liam to a human world to trade, but dealing with humans has brought up all the old pain in Liam’s heart. Even though Ondry would do anything to protect his beloved palteia, he doesn’t know how to protect Liam from himself. Worse, Ondry isn’t sure how to shield Liam from the shifting politics on the Rownt ship where the Calti Grandmothers are nothing like the ones they left behind on the planet.With everything in their lives changing, Ondry and Liam have only each other… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Parental abandonment recounted
Rape (off-page) & child sexual abuse recounted
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) & trauma
Death of a parent (off-page)
War themes
Animal attack (off-page)

The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill

The ornate reading room at the Boston Public Library is quiet, until the tranquillity is shattered by a woman’s terrified scream. Security guards take charge immediately, instructing everyone inside to stay put until the threat is identified and contained. While they wait for the all-clear, four strangers, who’d happened to sit at the same table, pass the time in conversation and friendships are struck. Each has his or her own reasons for being in the reading room that morning—it just happens that one is a murderer.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Racism & ableism, including mentions of police brutality
Physical child abuse by alcoholic parent(secondary character)
Dieting mentioned
Alcohol consumption
Parental infertility mentioned (secondary character)
Physical injury & mentions of the COVID-19 pandemic
Death of a father from a heart attack mentioned (secondary character)
Death of a sister in a mountaineering accident recounted
Murder
Mugging with knife (secondary character)
Phyiscal assault
Incarceration for the murder of a stepfather in self-defence (secondary character)
Homelessness mentioned
Bushfires mentioned

The Wonderland Murders by Lanie Olson

Things are different when you’re a burden. I was dumped at Carroll’s Home for Troubled Youth by parents I can’t quite remember—or maybe I came here on my own. No … I was found guilty of a crime and that’s why I’m here. It all depends on who you ask or choose to believe, I guess. I spend my days with my best friend who’s done way more heinous things than I have. He wants me to remember—to tell him stories about being a stranger in a strange land, but I don’t want to talk about it because when you talk about things, that’s how they become real again. Because it… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Beastiality
Hallucinations
Psychiatric hospitalisation
Blood & gore depiction

Words on Bathroom Walls by Julia Walton

Labor and delivery nurse Penelope is an expert at her job but a complete mess when it comes to her personal life. After her boyfriend dumps her in favor of saving his marriage, Penelope discovers she’s pregnant. Now Penelope must face motherhood, her greatest fear, or consider the alternatives. Jesenia, a first-generation American, made her mark as a model then quit the business in favor of a nine-to-five and wedded bliss. After three years of fertility treatments and pressure from her family, trying to become a mother is her full-time job. But when her past mistakes… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Child abandonment
Schizophrenia
Self-harm & suicidal ideation
Drug use & overdose
School shooting mentioned

Work for It by Talia Hibbert

In this village, I’m an outcast: Griffin Everett, the scowling giant who prefers plants to people. Then I meet Keynes, a stranger from the city who’s everything I’m not: sharp-tongued, sophisticated, beautiful. Free. For a few precious moments in a dark alleyway, he’s also mine, hot and sweet under the stars… until he crushes me like dirt beneath his designer boot. When the prettiest man I’ve ever hated shows up at my job the next day, I’m not sure if I want to strangle him or drag him into bed. Actually—I think I want both… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Disownment by homophobic parnets
Forced outing mentioned
Image-based sexual assault
Depression & anxiety (protagonist)
Death of a parent from suicide mentioned
Murder
Blackmail

A Worthy Opponent by Katee Robert

Once upon a time I was a girl who believed in love and happily ever afters. Now the only thing I believe in is revenge. Unfortunately for me, there’s only one man willing to help me. Hook. I should have known it wouldn’t be out of the goodness of his heart. He doesn’t have one. No, Hook wants his ring on my finger and me on my knees before him—and he won’t take no for an answer. I’m willing to pay any price in order to bring Pan down…even if it means I lose my soul in the bargain.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Intimate partner abuse & violence recounted
Emotional & physical child abuse recounted
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) & panic attack
Scars
Parent with alcoholism
Alcohol consumption & mentions of recreational drug use
Gun violence
Attempted kidnapping

Wrecked by Lauren Asher

Jax. Pills. Alcohol. Adrenaline. I’m addicted to destructive decisions that numb my pain. Until one night when I make a catastrophic mistake. To repair my broken reputation, my team hires Elena. An overpaid babysitter set on ruining my plans. She’s my damnation disguised as my salvation. And my newest addiction. Elena. I begged the universe to save me from my financial disaster. It answered my call with a Formula 1 team desperate for a PR miracle. One season. One job. One broody British racer. Except that Jax turns our hotel room into a battleground. To beat… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Racism mentioned
Drug & alcohol abuse
Alcoholism & substance addiction
Anxiety & panic attacks and nightmares
Relative with Huntington’s Disease & Alzheimer’s Disease
Emesis
Murder

The Wrong Bridesmaid by Lauren Landish

Wyatt Ford hightailed it out of Cold Springs to get away from his influential family and the unwanted privilege that came with it. Returning for his brother’s wedding dredges up every reason he left. One unexpected bright spot: a curvy knockout who slings burgers, hustles pool…and hates the last name Ford. Hazel Sullivan is fiercely independent and happy to be maid of honor for her best friend’s wedding, but she isn’t looking for romance. Especially not with a man whose family is dividing her town into a battleground with their development plans. Fighting the family… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Classism
Parent with alcoholism

The Wrong Family by Tarryn Fisher

Have you ever been wrong about someone? Juno was wrong about Winnie Crouch. Before moving in with the Crouch family, Juno thought Winnie and her husband, Nigel, had the perfect marriage, the perfect son—the perfect life. Only now that she’s living in their beautiful house, she sees the cracks in the crumbling facade are too deep to ignore. Still, she isn’t one to judge. After her grim diagnosis, the retired therapist simply wants a place to live out the rest of her days in peace. But that peace is shattered the day Juno overhears a chilling conversation between Winnie and Nigel… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Cheating (off-page)
Psychosis
Murder (on-page)
Kidnapping

The Wrong Heart by Jennifer Hartmann

When my husband died, he left my broken heart behind. He left another heart behind, too—his. I know it’s wrong. I shouldn’t be contacting the recipient of my husband’s heart. I don’t even expect him to reply… But there’s a desperate, twisted part of me that hopes he will. No names. No personal details. Just a conversation. The only thing I have left of my husband is inside him.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Hospitalisation for attempted suicide (protagonist)
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a husband recounted