Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

What Doesn't Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness - Lessons from a Body in Revolt by Tessa Miller

39 reviews

leslie_overbookedsocialworker's review

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, and Sexual assault

kb_sherman's review against another edition

I like the concept, but it’s just too difficult for me to read right now. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Chronic illness, Excrement, and Medical content

Moderate: Sexism and Sexual assault

imstephtacular's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Medical content, Classism, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Excrement, Grief, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Sexism, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Injury/Injury detail, Fatphobia, Addiction, Alcohol, Child abuse, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, and Gaslighting

Minor: Vomit, Terminal illness, Suicide, Sexual violence, Racism, Sexual assault, Self harm, Pregnancy, Police brutality, and Miscarriage

kateph's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Vomit

kelseyland's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

A good guide for newly chronically ill/disabled people and/or their loved ones, since it's mainly focused on practical, day-to-day information along with stories of the author's experience with Crohn's disease. 

Content note, per the author: Hospitalization, sexual assault, physical and emotional abuse, details of bowel disease 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness

Moderate: Sexual assault, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse

aimiller's review

emotional funny hopeful informative medium-paced

4.0

I received a free copy of this book directly from the publisher, and I'm grateful for the opportunity to read this and write a review. 

A powerful combination memoir and guide on how to navigate chronic illness in the US, Miller writes both of her own experiences and offers advice on how to deal with the changes wrought by chronic illness. The resources in the back of this I think could be very helpful; she writes about how to find a therapist who specializes in the changes of life and trauma associated with chronic illness, how to find a good doctor, and also reveals how absolutely garbage our healthcare system here is in the US. Her own journey of course is also really enlightening; she doesn't hold back in examining how her own privileges help her get the care she needs, and also how capitalism and the structure of work in the US really further damaged her health. 

I think this could be really helpful for anyone facing chronic illness or pain--it really does cover a lot of important ground, and it doesn't pretend there are easy answers for any of the challenges that arise. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness

Moderate: Sexual assault

kennyrae89's review

dark emotional hopeful informative medium-paced

4.0

Great book to read for people dealing with chronic illness. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

emfass's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Part memoir, part journalism, 1000% vulnerable and a must-read, especially if you love someone with chronic illness. I cannot speak from an #OwnVoices perspective, but I hope it would also help a reader with chronic illness feel seen. I listened to this on audiobook, and it was made even more powerful by listening to Miller tell her story in her own voice.

Content warning: the author is descriptive throughout concerning the effects of IBD (inflammatory bowel disease), C. diff, and Crohn's disease) and does not hold back about what it does to her body. She also shares openly about many different traumas she has faced throughout her life. (I love The StoryGraph website for more detailed content warnings, if you need them!)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Vomit, Violence, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical trauma, Medical content, Grief, and Excrement

Moderate: Eating disorder

magzreadz's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness

shaunashares's review

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Excrement, Medical trauma, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, and Panic attacks/disorders