Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay

52 reviews

beccaruthe's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Blood, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Body shaming, and Death

Moderate: Child death, Excrement, Mental illness, Self harm, Grief, Cancer, Racism, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Infertility, and Terminal illness

Minor: Alcoholism

xosirenox's review against another edition

funny informative fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Medical content, Medical trauma, Child death, Suicide attempt, Body horror, Gore, Grief, Infertility, Blood, Death, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, and Terminal illness

amylia_k's review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective fast-paced

4.75

a realistic insight into the lives of our front-line staff of the NHS. A wonderful way to tell Adam Kay’s story and so informative whilst being lighthearted and funny too. I couldn’t put the book down and felt so connected to his tale. It made me realise the things I take for granted.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Blood, and Pregnancy

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Abortion, Infertility, Eating disorder, Miscarriage, Injury/Injury detail, and Cancer

wolf013's review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Blood, Cancer, Child death, Death, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Racism

Moderate: Self harm and Suicide attempt

Minor: Dementia, Abortion, Eating disorder, Excrement, Alcohol, Antisemitism, Domestic abuse, and Miscarriage

natthahlyh's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Child death, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Pregnancy, and Mental illness

bookchatwithbeth's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Excrement, Blood, Abortion, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Suicide attempt, Self harm, Miscarriage, Gore, Dementia, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Medical trauma, Medical content, Infertility, Grief, and Child death

ninah17's review against another edition

challenging informative sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Cancer, Dementia, Infertility, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, Abortion, Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Self harm, Sexual content, Terminal illness, and Vomit

bennyholm's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Vomit, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Grief, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Blood, Cancer, Drug use, and Abortion

Moderate: Body shaming, Chronic illness, and Addiction

ezzab126's review against another edition

emotional funny informative sad fast-paced

4.75

Incredibly funny but also poignant look into the life of a doctor. Making me respect even more the work of doctors, nurses etc and the NHS in general. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Miscarriage, Abortion, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Medical content, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Vomit

alomie's review against another edition

dark emotional funny fast-paced

2.0

I'm just inherently not interested in this topic, I read this for bookclub and I've avoided it prior to this as it's just not a particularly interesting subject to me. 

It was amusing in parts but in others i just found myself skipping over, it didn't really add much to my overall understanding of NHS life, but i also have a few friends who work within the underfunded institution so I am fairly aware of the pitfalls and horrific working conditions. 

I also felt the tone was a bit off in parts, and he came off a bit smug in others. 

Just not for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Gore, Terminal illness, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Misogyny, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Infertility, Grief, Body shaming, Vomit, Suicide attempt, and Pregnancy