Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan

33 reviews

autumnflorence's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Medical trauma, and Medical content

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

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

books_tea_and_candlelight's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Medical content

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders and Terminal illness

janefossum's review

emotional informative inspiring tense medium-paced

5.0

An incredibly unique book due to its combination of informative teaching and very immersive moments of true emotion. The book begins with Susannah introducing herself which allows you to create an attachment for when she goes through her “month of madness” where you can actually feel her emotions. I would highly recommend this to anyone looking for a nonfiction book that feels like fiction. Her writing technique is truly stunning and pushed me to finish this in 4 days (shamelessly)

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Content Warnings

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

Susannah goes through a series of paranoia during her hospital stay that can be really traumatic as she goes through lots of anxiety specifically about the nurses and the hospital itself. She is also at several points diagnosed with schizophrenia and psychosis. She has a lot of trauma from this even after she is (mostly) recovered and returns to the hospital to get her records and interview people.

bookswithgeorgia's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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