Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson

9 reviews

battlecactus's review

challenging emotional funny informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced

5.0

If you’re easily offended by anything, I think you should read a different book. This read is bold, direct and uses language most people nowadays can’t handle. If you have a bit of distance to yourself and are open minded enough to read something that you might find uncomfortable, you’ll find an excellent book that makes you think and lets you see a different perspective on some things. 
I do not agree with everything that’s written in this book. There are certain things I really was surprised by. Still, it’s probably one of the best books I’ve ever read in this category and I wish I’ve read it earlier in my life. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse, Bullying, Sexism, Addiction, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Alcohol, and Death

Harsh language, in-your-face, difficult topics

lovesbug787's review

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

3.5

It is somewhat repetitive but gets the point across. Gives a lot of good information 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Mental illness, Infidelity, and Death

Moderate: Classism, Addiction, Child death, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, and Grief

Minor: Cancer, Body shaming, Sexual content, Sexism, Suicide, Sexual violence, Panic attacks/disorders, War, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

Talks about a lot of uncomfortable or unfortunate situations as examples for ways to change life. They are brief for the most part but are covered and may be unsuitable for some people

midwestbookster's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective relaxing medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Mental illness

pidgepodge's review

funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

5.0

This was a truly interesting and informative book. It challenges your opinions on how to achieve and what to put energy into. It’s a really hard book to explain, but a highly recommended read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Addiction and Suicide

roaze's review

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Probably my favourite self-help book, i’ll never stop recommending it to people. Definitely helped me in a lot of aspects of my life. I could go on and on about this for just read it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

ashleycmms's review against another edition

challenging inspiring reflective fast-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Grief, Drug use, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Suicide, and Infidelity

Minor: Cancer, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Child death

icarusandthesun's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring medium-paced

5.0

as an avid overthinker, i didn't believe this book could possibly tell or teach me anything i didn't already know. that this would be another one of those generic "stay positive and don't act like an asshole!" type of self-help books, but oh my goodness, was i wrong.

hilarious and actually genuine, this book is packed with truthful advice and helpful anecdotes about how to deal with life and all of the stupid shit that worries us way too much on a day-to-day basis.

and if you're thinking: "my life is going great, i don't need a self-help book" then you're 1) probably not even reading this, and 2) very wrong. this one is for everyone, not only for the depressed, the sad, the hopeless. this book is for everyone, because it talks about how we as humans and individuals can become better at dealing with our bullshit and start giving less fucks about unimportant, time-consuming subjects. 

everyone should read this book. end of story.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Mental illness, Death, Drug abuse, and Toxic relationship

sdarwood's review against another edition

challenging hopeful reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

reusablecup's review

funny informative medium-paced

4.0

This book had some solid nuggets in there, some nice quotes and pieces to think upon. 
A lot of sexual references which got old quite quickly, and, having read this via audiobook it felt a little odd to hear them out loud. 
A trigger warning for the final story should be adhered, the vivid detail a little jarring. 

Overall, quirky, fun, relatable, and maybe best listened to passively rather than taken too seriously.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness and Suicidal thoughts