Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

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

15 reviews

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

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

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

space_hag's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Maria Bamford is saying all the things that should be said about mental illness.  All while being absurd & charming af. The chapter on suicide was cleverly apt. Maria Bamford is great.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Suicide, Body shaming, Eating disorder, and Suicide attempt

abelle's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Mental illness, Animal death, and Addiction

al3xa's review against another edition

dark emotional funny medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Medical content, Mental illness, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Grief, Chronic illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Animal death, and Alcohol

lawmixitup's review

dark funny hopeful fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Mental illness, Confinement, Sexual assault, Cancer, Child abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, Animal death, Incest, Suicidal thoughts, Body shaming, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Police brutality

A majority of the content warnings are due to intrusive thoughts from OCD

jesselopod's review

funny hopeful fast-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Death of parent, Body shaming, Mental illness, Cancer, Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Body shaming, and Suicide

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

saintshithead's review against another edition

funny reflective fast-paced

3.75

easy reader and lots of fun. good for me since i've fallen out of the habit and reading denser stuff has been challenging lately. Bamford is aware of this and mocks the reader often for it (calling us "skimmers" 😭). 

Lots of reused material from her stand up shows but if you enjoy her act, you'll find the book fun. I like her a lot so I'm glad to support her financially with book sales but I also kinda wish I woulda just got this from the library lol. I doubt I'll ever read it again but I'll probably share it with some friends since it's good for some laughs and goes down easy. My favorite bits were her reflections on working for Target but I felt like that bit never went anywhere or culminated in a solid understanding/reflection of her time doing that work. 

My one real complaint is that she has trigger warnings for all mentions of violence thoughts and suicide but then includes explicit weight numbers and descriptions of her (current) struggles with body dysmorphia and (past) struggles with restrictive eating with no warning. Makes sense for someone that would find Overeaters Anonymous (basically a weight watches type group but with STEPS!) helpful in terms of inching towards ED recovery but I do wish her editors would have said something since it's certainly trigger material. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Eating disorder