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

9 reviews

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

macykey's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny fast-paced

4.5

I personally love when you can tell an author’s personality through their writing, so I loved Maria’s memoir. It’s quirky and funny and interesting and genuinely helpful. There are a lot of things about mental illness that are still stigmatized, and there is a lot in here that could be seen as embarrassing. But Maria talks about it in such a candid way that it didn’t read as embarrassing. I also appreciated how in the book, Maria did not try to paint herself as a good person and was honest about her flaws. Additionally to that, she didn’t paint her relationship as something that cured or saved her. She didn’t paint her husband as the perfect person who loved her through her mental illness. Her husband is a flawed person just like her with his own difficulties, but they help each other and approach each other with grace and kindness. Additionally, as someone who comes from an extremely religious family, but isn’t religious herself, it drives me up the wall when people tie so much of mental healthcare to religion. I love how that was addressed here. Lastly, I loved the end message of ‘Do whatever you have to do and accept whatever you can accept because this mental illness shit isn’t fun or funny.’ I’m so tired of people saying that all you need to do is change your diet or think better thoughts or change your mindset or do this or do that. Sometimes the only thing I can do is get out of bed in the morning. So if it helps one person to tell the stranger in line or an underpaid employee their troubles, do it!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Sexual content

msmaryfran's review

Mental health memoirs aren't my favorite. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Sexual content

lcamp2780's review against another edition

dark funny reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Animal death, Eating disorder, and Suicide

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic, Police brutality, Sexual content, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Religious bigotry

ppgstarpants's review against another edition

dark funny informative fast-paced

4.75

I’ve loved all her specials, have seen her live, and still, this book was wildly funny, shed insights on her life, and was radically transparent about mental health, recovery and the finances of being a comic

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship

sar_willow's review

dark emotional funny reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, and Mental illness

Moderate: Death of parent, Grief, Animal death, Cancer, Medical content, Suicide attempt, and Suicide

Minor: Forced institutionalization, Addiction, Police brutality, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Sexual content

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

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

dougyounkin's review against another edition

funny reflective slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt and Sexual content

Moderate: Cursing