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Reviews tagging 'Eating disorder'
Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere by Maria Bamford
77 reviews
jkpiowa's review against another edition
Moderate: Eating disorder and Mental illness
Minor: Death of parent
torturedreadersdept's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Pandemic/Epidemic, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Cancer, Suicidal thoughts, Dysphoria, Toxic relationship, Homophobia, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Alcohol, Body horror, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, and Terminal illness
jen_sometimes's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Suicide attempt, Suicide, Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Mental illness, and Animal death
saintshithead's review
3.75
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.
Graphic: Body shaming, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Eating disorder
kjlewis494's review
5.0
Moderate: Cursing, Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Grief, and Suicide
Minor: Animal death
bullockae's review
3.5
Graphic: Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, and Mental illness
Moderate: Suicide and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
booksandcoffeewithlexi's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Eating disorder and Death of parent
spec_tacles's review
4.5
Graphic: Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Chronic illness, Medical content, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide attempt, and Suicide
Moderate: Body shaming, Death, Grief, Cancer, Animal death, Child abuse, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Fatphobia
Minor: Abortion
wickedgrumpy's review
2.0
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).
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
4.0
Graphic: Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Medical content, Animal death, Body shaming, Chronic illness, and Forced institutionalization