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What Doesn't Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness - Lessons from a Body in Revolt by Tessa Miller
11 reviews
atokuyama's review
5.0
Graphic: Medical content, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, Excrement, Grief, Sexual assault, Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Chronic illness
Moderate: Blood, Pandemic/Epidemic, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Addiction, Death, Alcoholism, Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, Drug use, Domestic abuse, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Misogyny, Ableism, and Gaslighting
rockyroadbutch's review
4.75
Graphic: Excrement, Medical trauma, Chronic illness, Medical content, and Blood
Moderate: Mental illness, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Ableism, Pandemic/Epidemic, Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, and Grief
katrinarose's review
5.0
Graphic: Chronic illness, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Excrement, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Violence, Addiction, Grief, Drug use, Drug abuse, Blood, Vomit, Alcoholism, and Toxic relationship
laurenkimoto's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Blood, Chronic illness, Rape, Toxic relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcoholism, Body horror, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Gaslighting, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit
the_vegan_bookworm's review
5.0
If you are chronically ill or disabled, I especially recommend this book to you.
This being said, please note the trigger warnings as this book may be difficult to read for some people. Miller discusses the abuse she experienced from her alcoholic father and drug-addicted ex-boyfriend, the nitty gritty of Crohn's (including detailed references to excrement, blood and vomit), medical trauma and ableism of many kinds, and sexual assault.
Graphic: Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Grief, Medical trauma, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit
Minor: Fatphobia and Racism
wickedgrumpy's review
3.0
I think the thing that frustrates me is that the intended audience switches between the chronically ill, those who are close to chronically ill people, and anyone who is curious about what it's like to live with chronical illness. To me, that is too broad of a scope. Since I fit into the first category, I find myself irked when the tone shifts to address the others.
That is to say, it's partly a memoir, partly a self help book, and partly reference material. I do think that there are some parts that are beneficial and good, but there are others that are so bizarre that I struggled to finish it. Also, reading it might be a triggering experience.
Minor: Self harm, Death of parent, Chronic illness, Blood, Addiction, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Panic attacks/disorders, Misogyny, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Excrement, Eating disorder, Drug use, and Confinement
gracegeeks's review
5.0
Graphic: Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Blood, Child abuse, Ableism, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Vomit, Excrement, Emotional abuse, and Drug use
kb_sherman's review
Graphic: Blood, Chronic illness, Excrement, and Medical content
Moderate: Sexism and Sexual assault
emfass's review against another edition
5.0
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!)
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
5.0
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.
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