Reviews tagging 'Fatphobia'

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan

10 reviews

maddiearthur's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring tense fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Panic attacks/disorders, Chronic illness, Dementia, Medical content, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Blood, and Fatphobia

sperigo's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

4.5

Absolutely gripping story, with some fascinating medical insights. The only con is that the writer expresses some fatphobic bias towards the end of the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, Medical trauma, and Medical content

Moderate: Fatphobia and Panic attacks/disorders

laurenzott's review

Idk if her brain being on fire made her a terrible person or she was one before but do not recommend. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia and Racism

lex_y's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Body horror, and Medical content

Moderate: Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Ableism, Cancer, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Dementia, and Injury/Injury detail

sabrinahughes's review

3.0

This was interesting but I don’t know if I’d recommend it. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fatphobia

bartlebies's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad medium-paced

3.5

Boy howdy the narrator for the audiobook was awful. Can we ban white people doing bad accents when there is literally no reason to do them?? christ. 

The book itself was okay, but I felt like it lacked any deeper meaning beyond “i had this rare disorder and it sucked for everyone and now i’m better” which is unfortunate since she’s a reporter/writer who you would think would be a better writer. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, Medical trauma, Chronic illness, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, and Self harm

Minor: Addiction, Blood, Body shaming, Death, Dementia, Infertility, Forced institutionalization, Terminal illness, Pregnancy, Self harm, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Ableism, Alcoholism, Alcohol, and Child death

acupoftea16's review against another edition

informative mysterious medium-paced

3.5

This book was a little underwhelming. Some phrases and topics were out of date, making some parts a little hard to connect to. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fatphobia

wardeh_m's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, Chronic illness, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Fatphobia

ryanmoths's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring tense fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Medical trauma, Medical content, and Body horror

Minor: Fatphobia

sarahtranslates's review against another edition

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Chronic illness

Moderate: Fatphobia and Ableism