Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton

47 reviews

m4rtt4's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective medium-paced

3.5

"It's me, hi, I'm the problem, it's me."
Emotional, raw and tangible with some real good examples of how to do and not do your relationships, though it would have been better if I had related more to Alderton's life experiences (but do I wish to relate to alcoholism though?...)

All the parts where the story of her life went on were interesting and nice to listen to, but the more life guide -like parts that tried to be funny weren't really funny at all and made me cringe and wish they had been cut out. Still worth reading/listening to, especially if your sense of humour is different from mine lol

The part about getting older in the very end was my favourite one, as I have been experiencing a continuous aging crisis since I was effing 13 and it's still going strong now at 20, I'm absolutely horrified about turning 30 and yes I keep rambling on and on but yeah read this book especially if you are in your 20s or 30s thank you and bye

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Cancer, Death, Eating disorder, and Mental illness

Moderate: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, and Drug use

laraximenes's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Dolly felt to me like the big sister I never had. A hug. That’s what this book was.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Mental illness

allydoessomereading's review against another edition

funny reflective medium-paced

3.75

Dolly Alderton reflect on her twenties and the love she felt and experienced in her twenties with such richness and passion. I feel envious of the depth to all the relationships she reflects on, and I feel comforted in learning about the existentialism surrounding love and ageing is experienced by almost all.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Grief, Alcoholism, Self harm, Child death, Death, and Terminal illness

evasophias's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

a solid read <3 felt like having a convo w bestie but that’s bc she annotated it. LOVE U IZZY!!! anyway very cute and funny and spoke fax. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Addiction, Body shaming, Eating disorder, and Alcohol

lara_r's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cancer, Terminal illness, Eating disorder, Medical content, Alcohol, Death, Chronic illness, Grief, and Mental illness

Moderate: Drug use

Minor: Pregnancy

ieotter13's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

This book hit almost every emotion: sad, funny, hopeful, encouraging - but most of all touched what love actually means: not just the hopeless romantics you see in film, the one night stands of your teenage/early twenties, or long term relationships, but  true love that comes in friendships and meeting new people and going to new places and everything in between. the intermittent recipes and emails took some getting used to and I found it a little slow towards the middle, but by the end I couldn’t put it down. While the stories in here definitely hit home as a teenager, I can see this book being even more poignant the older I get. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Fatphobia, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Self harm, and Suicide

hypocrisis's review against another edition

lighthearted relaxing

2.0

I didn't hate it. some of the topics touched on were relatable and important to me but they were explored on such a surface level that it didn't bring me any particular enjoyment or insight. the writing style was too forced and stacked with bad metaphors. this is a book written from the worst of white feminist perspectives, privileged, naive and boring while aiming to offer somewhat political takes lol

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Death, Cancer, Body shaming, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Drug use, Body shaming, Grief, and Terminal illness

grizzlysnack's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Cancer, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, Alcohol, and Sexual content

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Dysphoria, and Panic attacks/disorders

cutepatzie's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

3.75

It's a good book but many elements maybe will not fit the life of people. It's still a good book, it's very reflective about life. Its have good advice but as I mention not everything is for everyone. But still is a good book to read at least once.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Chronic illness, Fatphobia, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Grief, Dysphoria, Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Terminal illness, and Cancer

blckbird's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted reflective slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol and Eating disorder

Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Cancer, Drug use, and Terminal illness