Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher

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

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

Moderate: Infidelity

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

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

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

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, Drug abuse, Mental illness, and Alcoholism

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

boundbymischief's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring tense fast-paced

5.0

Super funny, and eye opening!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Addiction, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Toxic relationship

Minor: Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

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, Mental illness, Drug use, Infidelity, Medical content, and Medical trauma

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

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