Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

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

7 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

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

madamenovelist's review

dark emotional funny sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Forced institutionalization, Suicidal thoughts, Eating disorder, Medical content, Ableism, Medical trauma, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Animal death, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic

riotgrrrl92's review against another edition

challenging dark funny hopeful informative medium-paced

4.75

This book was phenomenal. I’ve been a Maria Bamford fan for over a decade, and her humor has always hit me in all the goofiest and darkest spots. Her experiences with OCD, ED, SI, depression, anxiety, and addiction is relatable to me in a way I’ve never seen. I’ve also spent a lot of time in 12 step halls and she had me cackling outloud in my office commenting on how ridiculous those meetings can be.  She’s bold and hilarious and brave and flawed. I felt extremely seen by this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Eating disorder, Self harm, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, Lesbophobia, and Homophobia

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

ciaomara's review against another edition

dark funny medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Medical content, Animal death, Body shaming, Chronic illness, and Forced institutionalization

frogggirl2's review against another edition

dark funny medium-paced

4.0

This book is messy and all over the place -  which is sort of the point and totally on brand.  I'm not a huge fan of memoirs and I didn't find this hugely helpful for myself or informative necessarily.  What I do feel is important for a comedian's memoir is that I frequently found this funny.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Suicide, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Body shaming, Suicidal thoughts, Infidelity, Animal death, Cancer, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Medical trauma, and Mental illness