Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients by Adam Kay

32 reviews

catastrojb's review against another edition

challenging emotional fast-paced

4.0

I’m always very torn with Kay. I dislike his mocking of patients or those who think differently to him, and his focus on the scatological aspects of life, but as someone who also works in the NHS my heart breaks a little for the experiences he’s had and the mental health difficulties he’s been left with. I also recognise the need for black humour…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Excrement, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

paukinra's review against another edition

challenging dark funny sad fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Bullying, Self harm, Sexual assault, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Dementia, Eating disorder, Medical content, Pregnancy, Blood, Body horror, Sexual content, Alcohol, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Mental illness

Moderate: Classism

always_need_more_books's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Eating disorder, Mental illness, and Miscarriage

racheleanne06's review against another edition

DNFed at 38%

I enjoyed Adam Kay’s first book ‘this is going to hurt’ a lot more than I was expecting, so I was looking forward to reading this. Plus I appreciated the dedication in this book which explained that he changed the names of his colleagues to MCU characters.

On one side I thought the anecdotes about his time as a medical student were interesting, they were both shocking and very revealing of the medical industry and at times they were funny in places too. 

But there wasn’t enough of the medical content for me, unlike in book one, this is more about Adam’s life outside of being a doctor. Which I am sure many would find very interesting, as he speaks very honestly about parental pressure, coming out as a gay man, and the mental health struggles he suffered after leaving medicine. However this isn’t really my kind of book, and I found some of the anecdotes a little too descriptive at times too.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Sexual content, Medical trauma, Blood, and Gore

Moderate: Mental illness

chloeberg's review against another edition

dark funny fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Mental illness, and Eating disorder

charlotte_helen's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

This is the third book written by Adam Kay that I have read and I have thoroughly enjoyed all of them. Whilst the first two were mainly based on his time working as a doctor, this was looked more into his life before and after this time. This book really puts into perspective how you never truly know why someone is going through as it highlights Adams comedic career whilst also discussing some of the worst times of his life. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Death, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Mental illness

staceyinthesticks's review against another edition

lighthearted reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder

Minor: Body shaming, Medical content, Mental illness, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy

logopolis's review against another edition

funny informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Sexual assault

Moderate: Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, and Eating disorder

Minor: Homophobia

connerjc's review against another edition

dark emotional funny medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Blood, Medical content, Addiction, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Dementia, Body horror, Body shaming, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Self harm, Cursing, Sexual assault, and Rape

Minor: Infidelity, Grief, Miscarriage, and Death

An absolute rocker! 5 stars I ugly laughed, almost cried, rolled my eyes and had a great time. This book was definitely free therapy and would 100% recommend to anyone who isn't squeamish or sensitive. Kay has a great autobiographical style, and as well as drawing me in with the humour, I feel like he has educated, counselled , and given me a voice.

dlsmk's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.75

This was probably the hardest hitting one yet. Holy guacamole. Please pay attention to trigger warnings. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Medical trauma, Eating disorder, Child death, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Medical content, Rape, Infidelity, Body shaming, Sexual violence, Homophobia, Cursing, Death, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, and Infertility