Reviews tagging 'Alcoholism'

My Alcoholic Escape from Reality by Nagata Kabi

34 reviews

radikaliseradgroda's review

emotional hopeful sad slow-paced

4.0

Nagata Kabi's writing is comforting precisely because it is uncomfortable. She doesn't turn her lived experience into a digestable form. You worry about her as you're reading. It's very reassuring to see the less instagrammable aspects of mental health depicted so genuinely. Sometimes suffering doesn't come with a moral at the end and a happily ever after, and that's not something to be ashamed about.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, and Chronic illness

nerdysread's review against another edition

challenging emotional slow-paced

5.0

Pfiou. Comment elle fait pour faire ça ? Je veux dire autant aspirer les lecteurices 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Eating disorder

whiteflowerose's review

dark emotional funny reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Alcoholism, and Medical content

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

hidemybook's review

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Alcohol, and Mental illness

btw0825's review

emotional funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content

Moderate: Alcoholism and Mental illness

frozenheartv's review

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad fast-paced

3.75

3.75 stars

Writing this review was hard for me.

The manga was very light-hearted, fun to read but at the same time very painful, heartbreaking and sad. The author is very brave and honest to write all of this to the public. Kudos to that!

I understand that the author simply just want to tell her story in a light way so that it's not too hard to read. However, i feel alcohol addiction is a serious problem and shouldn't be taken so lightly, i wish that the author could add some more reflective thoughts on her issue because now, everything is a bit too light .

for a near-death experience

Moreover, there was a part about

after the re-lapse, sometimes the test results were a bit off as if the results and the acohol issue weren't related. It's very easy to think that alcohol didn't affect the health based on that

. I'm no expert, but just like weight, it could go down after eating a lot but it could also go up after eating just a little. Weight or any kind of measurements depends on multiple factors. To know for sure, we have to base our judgements on long-term results. Maybe the author should add more thoughts on that part to avoid some misleading information because this is a sensitive topic and there are many types of readers as well. 

I wish i could give a higher rating because i like the book but i can't because it would be unfair to the other books i have rated. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide

Minor: Mental illness

litematcha's review

emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Mental illness

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

babymoomoocow's review

challenging dark emotional funny informative sad tense medium-paced

3.75

This book out of all of then was my least favorite. HOWEVER it is still VERY GOOD!

I liked the story but by the end it was a little odd. Talking about themes and stuff that she's already done and done very well. To me it's shocking that the themes she talked about weren't thing that she knew has been talked about and greatly liked by her fans. 

** SPOILERS **
But besides that I really enjoyed the moment where she was talking to her doctor. And he was like "yeah here we don't really see drinking as more than just a drink, but in other countries they see it more as a drug" Which explained very well to me why no one was intervening on Nagata's heavy drinking. Knowing that if she was drinking that heavily in the US (to the point of frequently wetting the bed) someone would have sent her to a rehab facility. 

It really shows the difference in cultures. 
** END OF SPOILERS **

Anyways, this one didn't hit me as hard as her other ones but this book focused on a more specific topic than her previous 3. But there were still some themes that carried over. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Addiction, Alcohol, Drug use, Drug abuse, Grief, and Medical content

Moderate: Self harm and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Eating disorder

talypollywaly's review

dark funny informative reflective fast-paced

3.75

Felt like it was really just setting up for further entries. Lots of medical talk too, so heed warnings if you're adverse to that sort of thing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism

Moderate: Medical content

asophia1014's review

emotional lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Medical content, Addiction, and Alcoholism