Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher

6 reviews

issyd23's review against another edition

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

5.0

Carrie Fisher is a riot! Reads like stand up comedy/1 woman show - wish I saw this performed live & wish Paul Simon would write a song about me 5🥃

“But the main thing I’ve learned, I learned all by myself, no help needed. I learned not to get my tongue pierced. Because if you’re getting it pierced for the reason why I think you’re getting it pierced and you’re not good at that thing to begin with, no little piece of jewelry is going to save the day.”

God she’s brilliant - there’s way too many funny lines to include! Can’t wait to read her other books 😆

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Antisemitism, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, and War

usuallyaudio's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

2.75

This is a short collective of stories of Carrie Fisher's life, as written (and read) by the author. It's based on her travelling show, so it makes sense that it is somewhat all over the place, rather than a biography. The main themes are her mental illnesses and struggles she faced throughout her life and career. She has a comical and lighthearted way of reflecting on her life, but it could be because she went through electroconvulsive therapy to treat her depression. I was hoping for more thorough biography, but that is not what this book is. It is funny reading this today as it was published in 2009 and it almost felt like she predicted or spoke into existence some things that happened since. 

While I love listening to autobiographies read by the author, she did read this as though it was one of her travelling performances. ie lots of yelling at the end of a sentence for emphasis.

RIP Carrie <3

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Alcohol

Moderate: Infidelity

Minor: Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Suicidal thoughts, and Grief

gabi_tron's review against another edition

dark funny hopeful lighthearted reflective fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Medical trauma, and Alcohol

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Eating disorder, and Medical content

bookswithbront's review against another edition

dark funny lighthearted reflective fast-paced

4.0

I can’t remember the last time I read a book in one sitting like this, but Carrie Fisher’s writing is delightful. If she was less self aware or more self serious this memoir wouldn’t work at all. But she expertly toed the line of being honest about mental health and addiction while still laughing at some of the more ridiculous parts of her story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, and Mental illness

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

wildbecs's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

gwooby's review against another edition

funny inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Mental illness, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Minor: Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

Carrie also discusses electroshock therapy and her experience with the treatments.