Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

719 reviews

rachrow's review against another edition

challenging dark funny hopeful tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Sexual harassment, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

cluelessdino's review

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Child abuse, Death of parent, Terminal illness, Mental illness, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, and Cancer

Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis

miss_believer's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Heartbreakingly relatable

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Eating disorder, Alcoholism, Cancer, Chronic illness, and Death

radtj's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cancer, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Addiction, Chronic illness, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Religious bigotry, Toxic relationship, Drug abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, and Fatphobia

solarel's review

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Gaslighting, Pedophilia, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Body shaming, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cursing, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Medical content, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Self harm, and Terminal illness

meghan_w's review

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

This book. It feels weird to sum up in words what I think of someone else’s life story and traumas. For that reason, I’m not rating it, but I’ll try to talk more about how this book made me feel rather than critique the content. 

I’m Glad my Mom Died is a memoir about the author’s experience as a child star on Nickelodeon, having a narcissistic mother, eating disorders, religious deconstruction, OCD, and other things. I highly recommend listening to this 100% on audiobook at 1.0x. It’s worth taking the time to hear the author’s voice inflections as she tells her story. 

This book isn’t light. The quip on the cover saying it’s funny is weird to me because it’s not. It’s heavy and it’s dark at times. I waited to read this until I felt I was in a place to be able to handle it. It made me feel angry, baffled, but most of all sad. Not just for the author, but for so many who struggle with similar issues as her and her mother. What I deeply appreciate the most is she takes a good amount of the book to share her experiences in therapy. It’s a raw account of how hard therapy is and that healing is not a linear process. We don’t get it right immediately and sometimes it’s gets harder before it gets better. 

I’m so grateful for her willingness to share her story with the world. I took pieces I needed out of it for my own life. It was truly a privilege to listen to her story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child abuse, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Alcoholism, Medical content, Self harm, Vomit, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Grief, Mental illness, and Physical abuse

sarahkorn's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative lighthearted reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

Fast, juicy read. Jennette McCurdy is a talented writer. She never minimized or hid her abuse, the way she tells it it's clear as day, yet she managed to tell her truth with humor and vivid detail, and I could picture every scene. I felt sad for Jennette but felt her resilience throughout the entire story. Overall this book deals with tough moments but is not particularly sad or dark -- still, check the trigger warnings on this one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Body horror, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, and Vomit

nessasreadingnook24's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse, Death, Cursing, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Vomit, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic relationship, Terminal illness, Self harm, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Grief, Eating disorder, and Emotional abuse

autumnnraynnn's review

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Death of parent, Chronic illness, Cancer, Child abuse, and Terminal illness

emilinaballerina's review

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

First off, iCarly was probably the most formative piece of media during my tween years so I knew this book was going to be heavy on the existential vibes for me but wowza. Jennette is a beautiful writer, and she captures such small nuances in every single person in this book, it brings the readers (or listeners I guess hehe) into the journey with her. I wouldn't say this is a particularly uplifting read, but I found the messiness of it all to be very relatable and human. And despite deep dives into some pretty heavy topics like disordered eating, mental illnesses, and familial abuse, Jennette's voice is brimming with humor and irony. I also thought it was interesting to hear her mention she wrote poetry when she was younger, and I think that influence shines through in the way she structures her chapters and the book as a whole. This was also a really great book to listen to and get to hear the emotion in her voice as she tells her story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Child abuse, Mental illness, Eating disorder, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, and Cancer

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis and Stalking