Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence by Anna Lembke

6 reviews

drdolphinphd's review against another edition

emotional informative slow-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Self harm, Murder, Mental illness, Addiction, Drug abuse, Suicide, Child death, Animal death, Eating disorder, Suicide attempt, Alcoholism, Drug use, and Suicidal thoughts

drawlina's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

2.0

There was some interesting information in this book about the nature of addiction and the relationships between pleasure and pain in the brain, but a lot of the content rubbed me the wrong way.  The author makes frequent comparisons of her addiction to erotic novels to the sometimes potentially fatal addictions of her clients.  There is a lot of speculation about what her clients "mean" when they say certain things--why not just ask them??  Also, a lot of talk about how people in contemporary society are over medicated and how stopping meds can be great seems highly irresponsible coming from an MD.  That combined with a lot of uncritical cheerleading for A.A. makes this not a read for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Addiction

debbilynn42's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

3.0

The narrative jumped around and the book lacked a central thread connecting the stories together into a purpose for their inclusion. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder, Drug use, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Alcoholism, Body horror, Addiction, and Drug abuse

charlottedow's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

A bit “Protestant work ethic” for my taste but she has some good points.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Drug use, Sexual content, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Drug abuse

Kink shaming

melina333's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

2.5

Das Buch hatte einige Interessante Passagen und handelt davon, wie es gelingen kann eine Sucht zu bekämpfen. Viele Kapitel fand ich leider sehr langweilig, da immer wieder (in meinen Augen uninteressante) Geschichten aus dem Leben der Autorin und dem Leben ihrer Patienten ausgebreitet werden. Anstelle dieser ganzen Beispiele hatte ich mir mehr wissenschaftlichen Inhalt erhofft. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Mental illness, Alcoholism, and Addiction

Moderate: Suicide attempt and Self harm

kkarinh's review against another edition

fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Suicide attempt, Sexual content, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Drug use, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Alcohol, and Mental illness

Minor: Eating disorder, Dysphoria, Medical content, Body shaming, Car accident, Chronic illness, Infidelity, and Panic attacks/disorders