Reviews tagging 'Eating disorder'

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

74 reviews

lawmixitup's review against another edition

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

cronareads's review

adventurous emotional lighthearted sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Ableism, Panic attacks/disorders, and Eating disorder

jessieraeyo's review

dark funny hopeful lighthearted reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Cancer, Grief, Mental illness, and Suicide attempt

wordsmithreads's review

Strong start in the first 10%, good narration by Bamford, but just fell apart for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Eating disorder, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

jasecordova's review

funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Addiction, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Self harm

Minor: Rape, Racism, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Sexism, Misogyny, Eating disorder, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Addiction, Pandemic/Epidemic, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Medical content

madamenovelist's review against another edition

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

jesselopod's review against another edition

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

jaxenne's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Eating disorder

kathleenwho's review against another edition

dark funny reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Suicide, Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

asourceoffiction's review against another edition

emotional funny medium-paced

Maria Bamford has a glorious voice, that brings this entire book to life. I cannot recommend the audio enough. Of course her voice gives power to her own story, but she's the most expressive narrator I've ever come across too.

The energy of this memoir is pretty chaotic, but still vulnerable and so funny, and it's such a brilliant honest depiction of Bamford's mental health struggles. You can tell this is something she has been managing with varying degrees of success her whole life, but it still feels optimistic. If you're a memoir fan I think this is a must read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, and Mental illness