Reviews tagging 'Miscarriage'

Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel

14 reviews

unavenusleyendo's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Blood, Self harm, Toxic friendship, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Vomit

a_grady's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, and Miscarriage

groovywitch's review

dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Miscarriage, and Adult/minor relationship

mondovertigo's review

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, Self harm, and Medical content

Moderate: Blood, Adult/minor relationship, and Sexual content

Minor: Rape

froggybooks's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

2.75

ugh. it was insufferable. relatable but insufferable.

the end and the afterword were good. it was just so long and waffly. also surprise ipswich appearance.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Pedophilia, Medical content, Toxic friendship, Suicide attempt, Self harm, Mental illness, Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Sexual assault, Panic attacks/disorders, Drug use, Classism, Blood, Antisemitism, Toxic relationship, and Addiction

Moderate: Miscarriage

Minor: Pregnancy and Abortion

amandag's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-paced

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Miscarriage, Self harm, Suicide attempt, and Abortion

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Drug abuse, Addiction, and Drug use

daughterofcain's review

emotional funny sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Suicide attempt, Miscarriage, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

julissadantes's review

emotional sad medium-paced

2.0

This was the definition of underwhelming.

Although I appreciate the crude depiction of depression, I also think that books, and memoirs especially, must have an engaging factor to them, and some kind of structure that makes sense over all. But this book spends too much time describing the childhood, without adding any new details to it and then rushes over adulthood events that played a bigger part for the climax of the book.

So at the end the only redeeming qualities of this book were that the text wasnt too dense so it was easy to follow, and that is very close to reality for those trying to understand a close one going through it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Miscarriage

rae_diant's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Despite its flaws, this has got to be one of the best books I've read. Slow paced but a devouring read. You empathize with Wurtzel even when you know, and she knows, she screwed up. A fight through depression with an inspiring end. As someone who suffers from depression but is in a good place right now, I only recommend this book to someone who is in a healthy mind.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Vomit, and Suicidal thoughts

poisontree's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

omfg
this got me out of a month long slump and it’s probably because of the tone of her writing
there was a lot to relate to and wasnt super gruelling to read
i definitely understand the grouping of prozac nation, girl interrupted and the bell jar
will i ever get tired of the depressed white girl genre who knows
i think at times i didnt really know what was happening but just went with it, reminding myself it was all nonfiction 
i think the biggest thing for me is seeing similarities in my world
i feel like more than half the people in our generation would doubly relate to this
i found the fact that the last pages suddenly were about nirvana kinda funny but it made sense
i live for pop culture references and music references so i really liked reading this
thats all
from ur trusty neighbourhood camibug

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Drug abuse, Violence, Vomit, Sexual content, Self harm, Drug use, Cursing, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Alcoholism, and Addiction