Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

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

12 reviews

dadspice's review against another edition

funny hopeful informative sad fast-paced

4.0

Love her, love the “recipes’ at the end of each chapter. 

I know oversharing is  a problem for her, but it sure is refreshing and validating to hear her experience..

A fluff-free, amazingly honest and amusing tour through a difficult life of mental illness.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Eating disorder and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Child abuse

angelasunshine's review

emotional funny reflective medium-paced

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Addiction, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

abicaro17's review

dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

4.0

This is one of the better memoirs i've listened too. I think Maria is hilarious and I'd totally go to her show. Again the book ends a little abruptly but I think the formatting is fun. The chapters are divided up into separate "cults" and chunks of her life. I appreciate that she keeps the timeline pretty easy to follow and describes what's happening year wise as well. I think I would have appreciated more of a conclusion other than her own twelve step program creation. The PDF of pictures and all the recipes were such a cute addition! I'd definitely recommend this as a good starter memoir. Very easy to listen to and funny while being serious. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pandemic/Epidemic, Self harm, Death of parent, Sexism, Suicide attempt, Vomit, Body shaming, Death, Dysphoria, Blood, Cancer, Cursing, Child abuse, Confinement, Fatphobia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Misogyny

cgreenstein's review

funny hopeful medium-paced

This memoir is distinct for the level and tone of its self-awareness, and, in my opinion, that's what made the whole thing work. I went with the audiobook version of this one, and I found that listening to her upbeat delivery as she chronicled incredibly difficult things enhanced the book. After all, she's a comedian and a voice actor-- her delivery is a central component of her work.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, and Mental illness

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic and Animal death

Minor: Child abuse

lawmixitup's review

dark funny hopeful fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Mental illness, Confinement, Sexual assault, Cancer, Child abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, Animal death, Incest, Suicidal thoughts, Body shaming, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Police brutality

A majority of the content warnings are due to intrusive thoughts from OCD

cake_cats_books's review

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Child abuse, Suicide, and Suicidal thoughts

thesonja's review

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring medium-paced

5.0

A must read for anyone, 1. Dealing with mental illness, 2. Knows someone dealing with a mental illness, 3. From the Midwest. So everyone!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Child abuse, Animal death, and Death of parent

jsteighn's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Eating disorder, and Mental illness

Moderate: Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Addiction, and Animal death

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic, Infidelity, Child abuse, Suicide, Police brutality, Death, and Drug abuse

spec_tacles's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective tense slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Chronic illness, Medical content, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide attempt, and Suicide

Moderate: Body shaming, Death, Grief, Cancer, Animal death, Child abuse, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Fatphobia

Minor: Abortion

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