Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

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

90 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

abbie_reads_books's review

funny hopeful reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Mental illness, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic

kirstieanya's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Terminal illness, Suicide, Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Eating disorder, Self harm, Medical trauma, Death, Mental illness, and Cancer

Minor: Fatphobia and Homophobia

sharonus's review against another edition

I stopped on the page where the author was joking with her husband about committing suicide. In the 23 pages I read, this was the probably the fourth time she mentioned suicide. "But I'm not suicidal." lol? That’s just about enough for me, thanks. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness and Suicidal thoughts

melissa10's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Eating disorder

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

nialystic's review

funny reflective medium-paced

1.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Addiction, and Mental illness

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

maukingbird's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

A perfect encapsulation of everything Maria. Deeply honest and laugh out loud funny.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, and Suicide attempt

stevienotnicks's review

dark emotional funny slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Mental illness

Minor: Animal death