Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness by Meghan O'Rourke

18 reviews

massivepizzacrust's review

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

This was such a great and important look at how our society treats people who fall off the spectrum of easily diagnosable illnesses. I loved the way it was written and I felt like it was an effective way of taking the reader along the journey of trying to find a diagnosis for serious chronic health issues (though I'm lucky enough to not understand how hard it is). The audiobook is read by the author, which I always love. 
I haven't seen enough people talk about this book, so consider this a push to pick it up.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness and Medical content

kbbru's review

informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Medical content, and Ableism

Moderate: Grief and Abandonment

Minor: Death of parent

lowbrowhighart's review

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Chronic illness, Medical trauma, and Ableism

Moderate: Death, Cancer, Gaslighting, and Sexism

Minor: Cursing and Terminal illness

ecn's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Cancer, Medical trauma, Medical content, Terminal illness, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, and Chronic illness

lizzieinmt's review

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

This book was interesting, while the author did deal with several overlapping and difficult illnesses she did have the enormous privalege to seek out nearly endless medical treatment. As a chronically Ill person that's often hard to hear and not be envious of. But the book also offered a lot of interesting information, medically and socially, and I did enjoy reading it. I especially liked that she concluded without wrapped it all up a neat bow, this really resonated with me and parts of the book made me feel deeply seen, while other parts made me feel ignored and glossed over due to socal and economic barriers. But that in itself is a metaphor for chronic illness. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Chronic illness

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Ableism, Blood, Cancer, and Death of parent

starrynox's review

informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Chronic illness, and Grief

litwtchreads's review

4.0

this was hard to read at times, in part because I identified so much with what the author was going through. i learned a lot from this though and i am very happy my own chronic illness is not as harsh 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness

Moderate: Death

there is a chapter or two where the author talks in depth about how she was expecting herself to die, and almost suicidal thoughts etc. she describes getting ready to remove all of her writing bc she didnt want anyone to see it when she died

internationalreads's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

This book literally changed my life. Longer review to come.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical trauma, Animal cruelty, Excrement, Terminal illness, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Grief, Infertility, Medical content, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Sexism, and Vomit