Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

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

34 reviews

eeenou's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Excrement, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Death of parent, Vomit, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicidal thoughts

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

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

dramaqueentears's review against another edition

medium-paced

1.5

I really tried but I couldn’t finish this. I had a hard time with the format. It was a memoir but also self-help at times. Tessa Miller is not an expert, unfortunately, so I’m not really interested in what she has to say about my mental health or how to find a good therapist. The best parts were her speaking honestly about her UC and Crohn’s Disease but even those moments were scattered with quotes, statistics, and footnotes. Needless to say, there was no reason for an appendix. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma and Medical content

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

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

readalongwithnat's review

informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

I received a free ARC from Henry Holt Books in exchange for my honest review.

This was one of my most anticipated books of the year and it did not disappoint. My chronic illness differs from Tessa's, but I still found this book to be incredibly relatable. I also liked how it was part memoir and part educational. I want everyone in my life to read this so they can better understand living with a chronic illness.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Addiction, Ableism, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Death of parent

r_dankovich's review

emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness

Moderate: Blood, Child abuse, Excrement, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Panic attacks/disorders