Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

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

19 reviews

abelle's review

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

lcamp2780's review

dark funny reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Animal death, Eating disorder, and Suicide

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic, Police brutality, Sexual content, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Religious bigotry

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

vicjp's review

challenging hopeful reflective fast-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Eating disorder, Animal death, Death of parent, Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

aimeedanielle's review against another edition

challenging dark funny informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Police brutality, Mental illness, Self harm, Pandemic/Epidemic, Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Panic attacks/disorders, Alcohol, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

sar_willow's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, and Mental illness

Moderate: Death of parent, Grief, Animal death, Cancer, Medical content, Suicide attempt, and Suicide

Minor: Forced institutionalization, Addiction, Police brutality, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Sexual content

jsteighn's review

dark emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Eating disorder, and Mental illness

Moderate: Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Addiction, and Animal death

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic, Infidelity, Child abuse, Suicide, Police brutality, Death, and Drug abuse

wickedgrumpy's review

challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

2.0

This was a difficult one to read.  I think if there is an audiobook version it might work better that way since it is written very much in the style that the author does comedy, so it can be very jarring with regular changes in font and abrupt asides.

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).

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Content Warnings

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

devynreadsnovels's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, Chronic illness, and Cursing

Moderate: Fatphobia, Medical content, Self harm, Drug use, Animal death, Body shaming, Death, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Eating disorder, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Racism, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Abortion, Cancer, Child abuse, Classism, Death of parent, and Toxic relationship