Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

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

44 reviews

rmkg's review against another edition

Funny, dark, bizarre, and at some points really touching. I think if you like Maria Bamford’s stand-up, you’ll like this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic

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

mpjohnston's review

funny lighthearted reflective fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Suicide

chelseakasten's review against another edition

challenging dark funny fast-paced

4.5

As a lover of dark comedy and sufferer of “the mentals,” I found this book to be hysterical. I laughed out loud frequently; there’s even a sense of levity during the most deeply serious of topics. 

As noted in the intro, this book doesn’t have much structure. Overall I wasn’t bothered by this although there were a few pieces where I felt there could have been more of an editorial or stylistic transition to note the end of a story. At times, it seemed like small but delightful stories (like the peanut butter pug face for Nick Kroll) were unceremoniously crammed into larger stories without an ending, thereby giving the feeling that I missed something in my reading. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Suicide, Death of parent, and Animal death

daggotry's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Maria Bamford is a fucking genius. Her well deserved popularity should equate to more success but she is open about her setbacks and has elevated her to folk hero(ine) for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm and Suicide

madied's review

dark funny informative reflective medium-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Suicide

chronicallyplotting's review

emotional funny lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Probably the funniest book I have listened to in a long time. As Maria Bamford bravely recounts her many adventures with group therapies and twelve step programs from debtors anonymous to couples therapy. Maria openly shares about her struggles with antidepressants, our healthcare system when it comes to mental health help and so much more. Although none of those topics sounds funny, trust me this book will have you laughing. 
Highly recommend, especially if you are depressed and need a laugh at the world and other situations. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Mental illness

Moderate: Alcohol, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Racism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment, Body shaming, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Addiction, Drug use, Cursing, Dysphoria, Pandemic/Epidemic, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

usecauti0n's review against another edition

dark funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Suicide, and Suicidal thoughts

melgal's review

2.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Toxic relationship