Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price

14 reviews

inthemoonlight's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Racism, Misogyny, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Ableism, and Addiction

Minor: Fatphobia and Alcoholism

theabee's review

informative inspiring reflective relaxing medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Toxic relationship

Minor: Transphobia, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, and Chronic illness

library_goth's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

The information was delivered in an easy to read and accessible way. The anecdotes, which I usually find annoying, were genuinely interesting and added a lot to the authors message, and were sourced from a diverse group of people with a lot of different backgrounds and relationships to overwork.  It really made me rethink where my energy goes and what my values truly are, and gave easily appliable techniques to refocus that energy. I couldn't recommend this enough. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Chronic illness

Minor: Transphobia, Homophobia, and Racism

ratstronomer's review

hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Devon is a welcoming writer and breaks down our conception of “laziness” concisely. I saw myself in this book and used it as an opportunity to work on my own biases and bad “productivity” habits. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Mental illness, Chronic illness, and Suicide

booksoflore's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

It’s gonna take me a lot more work to put this book’s ideas into practice, but this was a good start: this book made me quit my job.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Chronic illness

Moderate: Self harm, Suicide attempt, Transphobia, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

meganpbell's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

A social psychologist examines the “laziness lie”—the dominant and damaging belief that being virtuous means working hard and being productive—from its puritanical roots to its impact on work, activism, and our personal lives and relationships today. This relied a little more on anecdotes and interviews than on hard studies and statistics than I would like, but I still think it’s groundbreaking, radical, inclusive and definitely worth the read.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Ableism, Mental illness, Chronic illness, Classism, Fatphobia, Transphobia, Sexism, and Grief

charlatte_lee's review

challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Suicidal thoughts, Ableism, Mental illness, Alcoholism, and Chronic illness

alienarin's review

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness and Suicide

Minor: Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Ableism, Addiction, Transphobia, Racism, Alcoholism, and Fatphobia

amandabcook's review

funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Colonisation, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Racism, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, and Sexism

zombiezami's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative tense fast-paced

4.25

This book made me mad and fired up in the best possible way. Some of this information was stuff I already knew here and there, but it was great to see it laid out all together. I didn't necessarily relate to the compulsion to overwork that the author and their interviewees experienced; I'm pretty adamant about leaving work at work. Still, I notice this around me, and I know it's because of larger structural issues that make people feel they have to behave this way. 

I definitely feel that the beginning of the book was stronger than the latter portions. I understood that the laziness lie applied to areas other than labor, but I think the author could have made those connections to other areas a little more clear. Still, I loved this, and it gave me a lot to think about. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Mental illness, Vomit, Pandemic/Epidemic, Blood, Ableism, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Classism, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Religious bigotry, and Self harm

Minor: Sexism, Sexual content, Slavery, Colonisation, Fatphobia, Sexual assault, Transphobia, Genocide, and Racism