Reviews tagging 'Alcoholism'

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan

6 reviews

heoleen's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad fast-paced

4.0

Intens en bedroevend, maar ook zeer inspirerend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Medical trauma

Moderate: Chronic illness, Forced institutionalization, Addiction, Alcohol, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Vomit, Dysphoria, Alcoholism, Body horror, Body shaming, and Injury/Injury detail

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

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

thereaderfriend's review against another edition

emotional informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, and Mental illness

Moderate: Death, Chronic illness, and Terminal illness

Minor: Drug use, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

Very informative and interesting. Kept me on my toes

lizzie24601's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, and Mental illness

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, and Terminal illness

Minor: Alcohol and Alcoholism

indyemmajones's review

dark emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Death

Minor: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug use, Excrement, and Vomit