Reviews tagging 'Panic attacks/disorders'

Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life by Christie Tate

11 reviews

amberv92's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Book #7 GROUP by, Christie O. Tate done ✅ 

I don’t think I have ever related so much to a memoir in my life. I typically don’t read memoirs just for the fact that sometimes I lose interest half way through because my mind just can’t find a connection to the author. Christie had me at the first chapter. 

I was someone who thought relationships whether it be love or friendship was not a thing in the cards for me. Don’t get me wrong I felt “love” and had friendships but I always felt some type of loneliness. I felt like I was sitting in this GROUP and replayed all the times in my head I felt just like her and probably needed to hear all the things she was shown. 

Did I make it? Yes I’m happy, I’m in love and have a family but I never knew it was because part of me was telling myself everything she had to be told. 

Well done Christie Tate ✨

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Content Warnings

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, and Self harm

thequeenofsheba3's review against another edition

emotional hopeful slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Eating disorder, Death, and Mental illness

Moderate: Vomit, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, and Self harm

eliasliliequist's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

this hits way too hard. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Eating disorder, Grief, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, and Self harm

Moderate: Addiction and Alcoholism

trycerabel's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcohol, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Addiction, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Toxic relationship

ashleynewman's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Cursing, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

noshelf_control's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming and Eating disorder

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Infidelity, and Emotional abuse

interstellexr's review

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, and Eating disorder

mary_pat's review against another edition

emotional hopeful medium-paced

4.0

Memoir that read like a novel. I read this in two days, could not put it down. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Death, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

giulia's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Death, Eating disorder, Grief, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Toxic relationship

reading_between_the_trees's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

This book stirred up a lot of controversy on bookstagram about ethical therapy practices, and although I am not a therapist, I have gone to therapy myself and spoken to friends in the field at length about this book. Ultimately, my opinion is that therapy is completely voluntary, and different things will work for different people. While Dr. Rosen's techniques may be unconventional, this book is a memoir, and his techniques clearly worked well for the author.

My biggest takeaway from this book was about honesty. With others, with yourself, about yourself. Honesty is not something you just have to commit to, but something you have to work towards and uncover, because typically it is buried in shame and embarrassment. It was really inspiring to read about Christie learning to confront her most shameful secrets as a mode of liberation. It inspired me to really examine my self-talk and the ways I interact with and convey myself to others.

One qualm I had about this book was that I wish the reader had gotten more insight into Christie's journey with her eating disorder. I understand that the book was about group therapy, and maybe she focused more on her eating disorder in the meetings she attended for it, but it felt like a big part of the story in the beginning, and I was curious to see how her management of it was entangled with her healing in other areas of her life that she did discuss in group. Overall though, this was a very powerful memoir that I would recommend.

Please look at the content warnings before reading the book. The parts about eating disorders were especially difficult to read about.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Sexual assault, Self harm, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Death, and Body shaming

Moderate: Vomit, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Emotional abuse