Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

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

52 reviews

haleybre's review

emotional funny informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Chronic illness, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Cursing, Blood, Child death, Death, Grief, Infertility, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

alicesayshi's review

dark emotional funny informative inspiring sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content

Moderate: Mental illness, Child death, Blood, and Infertility

Minor: Cancer, Fatphobia, and Suicidal thoughts

goodyeargoodbooks's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Mental illness, Chronic illness, and Blood

lazza's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cancer, Infertility, Child death, Cursing, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

Minor: Drug use and Dementia

leontyna's review against another edition

3.0

It was interesting but at times I got annoyed by the author's opinions or jokes, especially the fatphobic ones.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Mental illness, Miscarriage, Death, and Abortion

Minor: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Cancer, Infertility, Terminal illness, Grief, Racism, and Self harm

thepostman96's review

emotional funny informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Grief, Medical trauma, Blood, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Death, Child death, Cancer, Cursing, Medical content, and Sexual content

Moderate: Infertility and Suicide

cjfooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, and Blood

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders

rhi_18's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative inspiring lighthearted sad medium-paced

4.25

Very medical. A lot of medical terminology and can be graphic. Eye opening. 
Interesting 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Medical content, Pregnancy, Infertility, Death, Chronic illness, Miscarriage, Eating disorder, Child death, Cancer, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, and Mental illness

hellandhogwarts's review

dark emotional funny informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Medical trauma, Alcohol, Excrement, Cancer, Child death, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Addiction, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, and Eating disorder

tupsukorva's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative fast-paced

4.25

If you're someone who gets offended easily, don't risk it by reading this book. It doesn't poke fun at patients themselves too much (though sometimes it would be totally deserved), but it can trigger some. As a person who works in veterinary medicine, I found some obvious similarities to our line of work. In solidarity it brings me so much relief, and obviously it was hilarious!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Pregnancy, Gore, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Body horror, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Child death, Abortion, and Medical trauma