Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

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

13 reviews

dexkit10's review

emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body shaming, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Self harm, Chronic illness, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Emotional abuse

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

anhedonia_n_anomie's review against another edition

dark funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Mental illness

Moderate: Addiction, Chronic illness, Forced institutionalization, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Death of parent, Animal death, and Suicidal thoughts

happinessie's review

dark funny lighthearted medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Suicide, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide attempt, and Chronic illness

Minor: Addiction

al3xa's review against another edition

dark emotional funny medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Medical content, Mental illness, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Grief, Chronic illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Animal death, and Alcohol

honestconman's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Sexual harassment, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Eating disorder, Drug use, Suicide, Grief, Chronic illness, Toxic relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, Forced institutionalization, and Body shaming

rhiannon814r's review

medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Chronic illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Mental illness

Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Religious bigotry, Animal death, and Cancer

Minor: Suicide attempt and Confinement

torturedreadersdept's review

funny hopeful informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Pandemic/Epidemic, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Cancer, Suicidal thoughts, Dysphoria, Toxic relationship, Homophobia, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Alcohol, Body horror, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, and Terminal illness

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