Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

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

28 reviews

nhackley's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Addiction, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical trauma, Medical content, Grief, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, and Alcoholism

atokuyama's review

emotional informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

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

creativerunnings's review against another edition

hopeful informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, and Ableism

skillwithaquill's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, Excrement, Chronic illness, and Grief

Moderate: Addiction, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Rape

rowynoconnor's review

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Medical trauma

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Eating disorder

beholderess's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Medical trauma

Moderate: Vomit, Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, and Grief

brogan7's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative slow-paced

4.0

I think it's funny her author picture looks like a rip-off of Joan Didion.
An unflinching look at chronic illness, how the United States sick care system is killing people, and informative on points about how to support people living with chronic conditions.
I would have liked some more detail about how you get from here to there....how you get from "I don't want anything like this happening to me and it's devastating and I think about it all the time" to "my life has inherent value and I have learned to connect with other people over this.". As in, real detail.  What were her first interactions in online forums like?  Are there times when the dialogue of disability exhausts her?  How do you figure out how to be genuine in this world when you don't want to disclose your personal health information but you also don't want to mask?

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content

elsea_readingelsea's review

emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Medical trauma, Medical content, Sexual assault, Ableism, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

laurenkimoto's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful sad slow-paced

4.0

Why isn’t heart wrenching an option for the mood of the book??

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Content Warnings

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