Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan

49 reviews

firyar's review

dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, and Mental illness

scenic92's review

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Medical content

alexxrose's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis and Medical content

Moderate: Mental illness and Confinement

Minor: Alcohol

This autobiography centres around the author's mysterious illness, however descriptions are matter of fact and all time in hospital is framed as necessary and, in the end, a positive experience.

heiddds's review

inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Suicide

mixyplixl's review against another edition

hopeful informative mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, and Medical content

bartlebies's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad medium-paced

3.5

Boy howdy the narrator for the audiobook was awful. Can we ban white people doing bad accents when there is literally no reason to do them?? christ. 

The book itself was okay, but I felt like it lacked any deeper meaning beyond “i had this rare disorder and it sucked for everyone and now i’m better” which is unfortunate since she’s a reporter/writer who you would think would be a better writer. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, Medical trauma, Chronic illness, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, and Self harm

Minor: Addiction, Blood, Body shaming, Death, Dementia, Infertility, Forced institutionalization, Terminal illness, Pregnancy, Self harm, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Ableism, Alcoholism, Alcohol, and Child death

emvdw's review against another edition

dark informative reflective tense

5.0

Horrifying pageturner

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Medical content, and Mental illness

Minor: Body shaming

ahopper7's review

emotional informative inspiring fast-paced

4.0

This book made me want to scream and cry at the same time, it’s insane to think people have to go through this everyday, but as a black women from America I know all too well have medical professionals treat patients. Very inspiring book overall, and the author does such a good job of detailing her personal story and explaining the medical information around it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Medical content, and Mental illness

Moderate: Alcohol

mxpringle's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Terminal illness, Mental illness, Medical content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Panic attacks/disorders, Confinement, Chronic illness, Cancer, Alcoholism, and Ableism

rakizaka's review against another edition

informative tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Mental illness, Medical content, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders