Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan

9 reviews

fkshg8465's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

After reading this book, the hypochondriac in me is grateful to know the existence of this disease, in case it happens to me and I need a doctor to look into it.

I’m sorry she had to go through this. My mom was misdiagnosed for a long time, and by the time we finally got an accurate diagnosis, we had only three weeks left together. So I know a little about this, even though my mom’s disease was something entirely different. As such, my compassion meter was very high on this one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cancer, Confinement, Drug use, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

sierrabowers's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

This was a great read about the horrifying reality of undiagnosed illnesses and how so many can closely resemble one another. I can relate to a lot of the things Susannah reported about her own illness, such as all tests coming back normal. It takes a caring and determined doctor to keep trying when all else fails. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Mental illness, Misogyny, Terminal illness, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Alcohol, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

guessgreenleaf's review

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Confinement, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, and Medical trauma

iamastraythought's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

4.0

Admittedly I did read this because she is suffering from the same disease that Will Graham has in Hannibal, and I wanted to read more about it. Her story is both horrific and inspiring.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Body shaming, Cancer, Confinement, Self harm, Dementia, and Dysphoria

lex_y's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Ableism, Cancer, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Dementia, and Injury/Injury detail

doctorjessie's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Mental illness, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

alexxrose's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Confinement and Mental illness

Minor: Alcohol

This autobiography centres around the author's mysterious illness, however descriptions are matter of fact and all time in hospital is framed as necessary and, in the end, a positive experience.

bartlebies's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad medium-paced

3.5

Boy howdy the narrator for the audiobook was awful. Can we ban white people doing bad accents when there is literally no reason to do them?? christ. 

The book itself was okay, but I felt like it lacked any deeper meaning beyond “i had this rare disorder and it sucked for everyone and now i’m better” which is unfortunate since she’s a reporter/writer who you would think would be a better writer. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Confinement, Mental illness, Self harm, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Infertility, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Terminal illness, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Dementia, Grief, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

mxpringle's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Cancer, Chronic illness, Confinement, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis