Reviews tagging 'Ableism'

Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere by Maria Bamford

6 reviews

lisettemarie's review

challenging funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicidal thoughts

drtx_bwt's review against another edition

emotional funny informative medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Eating disorder, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Suicide, Ableism, and Death of parent

cronareads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional lighthearted sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Ableism, Panic attacks/disorders, and Eating disorder

madamenovelist's review

dark emotional funny sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Forced institutionalization, Suicidal thoughts, Eating disorder, Medical content, Ableism, Medical trauma, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Animal death, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic

catriona176's review

funny lighthearted sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Lesbophobia

Minor: Ableism

wickedgrumpy's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

2.0

This was a difficult one to read.  I think if there is an audiobook version it might work better that way since it is written very much in the style that the author does comedy, so it can be very jarring with regular changes in font and abrupt asides.

Overall, it was interesting to read someone’s experience with mental health treatment, but it was made very obvious that it was from a privileged perspective.  Some of the advice given was offensive at best and dangerous at worst (joining a cult, while on brand for the book is not a good idea for the majority).

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Content Warnings

Minor: Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Forced institutionalization, Sexism, Abandonment, Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Car accident, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Classism, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Grief, Homophobia, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pandemic/Epidemic, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship