Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

My Alcoholic Escape from Reality by Nagata Kabi

20 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

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

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

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

readingpicnic's review

fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

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

radclyffe_uhaul's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Chronic illness, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Addiction, and Self harm

Minor: Blood

magatsumandala's review

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Medical content, and Alcohol

Moderate: Mental illness, Eating disorder, and Suicidal thoughts

robinks's review

dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

This book felt like a bit of a departure from Nagata’s deeply introspective work, and although I understand why, I didn’t like it as much as her other stuff. The last third of the book and the ending redeemed this volume for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content

Moderate: Alcohol