Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan

3 reviews

hooligansmoo's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

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

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