Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

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

7 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

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

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

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

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

devynreadsnovels's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, Chronic illness, and Cursing

Moderate: Fatphobia, Medical content, Self harm, Drug use, Animal death, Body shaming, Death, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Eating disorder, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Racism, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Abortion, Cancer, Child abuse, Classism, Death of parent, and Toxic relationship