Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson

5 reviews

gemstonejasper's review

hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

My coworkers have started to hate this book because I came in everyday after reading a bit of it with fun (and not so fun) facts about the body. But regardless of what they think, I really enjoyed the book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cancer, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Pandemic/Epidemic, Terminal illness, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Chronic illness, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Dementia, and Death

norwegianforestreader's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring relaxing slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Grief, Dementia, Drug use, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, Chronic illness, Terminal illness, Cancer, Car accident, Child death, Death, and Death of parent

mscalls's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Infertility, Animal cruelty, Blood, Body horror, Cancer, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Suicide, Animal death, Death, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Dementia, Excrement, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, and Misogyny

bookybadger's review against another edition

funny informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, and Medical content

Minor: Blood, Addiction, Dementia, Drug use, Grief, Infertility, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Suicide

junefish's review

challenging funny informative mysterious reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Blood, Body horror, and Medical content

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Medical trauma, Dementia, Suicide, Terminal illness, Sexual content, Mental illness, Gore, Excrement, and Drug use

Minor: Transphobia, Misogyny, Miscarriage, and Fatphobia

The book does not acknowledge the existence of transgender or intersex individuals.