Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

What Doesn't Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness - Lessons from a Body in Revolt by Tessa Miller

17 reviews

imstephtacular's review

dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Medical content, Classism, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Excrement, Grief, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Sexism, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Injury/Injury detail, Fatphobia, Addiction, Alcohol, Child abuse, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, and Gaslighting

Minor: Vomit, Terminal illness, Suicide, Sexual violence, Racism, Sexual assault, Self harm, Pregnancy, Police brutality, and Miscarriage

kateph's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Vomit

kennyrae89's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative medium-paced

4.0

Great book to read for people dealing with chronic illness. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

emfass's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Part memoir, part journalism, 1000% vulnerable and a must-read, especially if you love someone with chronic illness. I cannot speak from an #OwnVoices perspective, but I hope it would also help a reader with chronic illness feel seen. I listened to this on audiobook, and it was made even more powerful by listening to Miller tell her story in her own voice.

Content warning: the author is descriptive throughout concerning the effects of IBD (inflammatory bowel disease), C. diff, and Crohn's disease) and does not hold back about what it does to her body. She also shares openly about many different traumas she has faced throughout her life. (I love The StoryGraph website for more detailed content warnings, if you need them!)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Vomit, Violence, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical trauma, Medical content, Grief, and Excrement

Moderate: Eating disorder

readalongwithnat's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

I received a free ARC from Henry Holt Books in exchange for my honest review.

This was one of my most anticipated books of the year and it did not disappoint. My chronic illness differs from Tessa's, but I still found this book to be incredibly relatable. I also liked how it was part memoir and part educational. I want everyone in my life to read this so they can better understand living with a chronic illness.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Chronic illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, Excrement, and Vomit

Moderate: Addiction, Ableism, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Death of parent

spaghettireads's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Excrement, Grief, Medical content, Vomit, Chronic illness, Toxic relationship, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Eating disorder

lisabreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

 What Doesn’t Kill You by Tessa Miller is a chronic illness memoir. The author has Crohn’s Disease, like I do, but like many chronic illnesses, our symptoms and treatment paths are completely different. I did find this one leaning heavily on her experience in US healthcare and her persistent infections with C. Diff, neither of which I have personally experienced. She also goes a lot into her own personal history with abuse and the affects that had on her mental health during this experience as well, which was very personal to her.
So if you are reading this as a primer on Crohn’s, you’ll get some great information, especially if you are a US patient. But you will also get a lot of personal chapters that you would expect from a memoir.

Having Crohn’s can feel isolating as most people don’t love much “bathroom” talk so I appreciate anyone willing to share their story so I can feel a little less alone. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Excrement, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Eating disorder, and Fatphobia