Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Everything I Know about Love: A Memoir by Dolly Alderton

33 reviews

tlasata's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Mental illness, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Eating disorder, and Terminal illness

tarnaflake's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Eating disorder, Grief, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Alcohol, and Chronic illness

marta_guimaraes's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

Foi como fazer uma amiga numa noite e ficar a conversar com ela até ser dia. 
How I love being a woman.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Eating disorder, and Mental illness

laurajordensharris's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Cancer, Child death, Drug use, Grief, Mental illness, Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Eating disorder, and Sexual content

hannah_the_bookworm's review against another edition

challenging inspiring reflective

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcoholism, Abandonment, Addiction, and Mental illness

katiejohns's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Death

Moderate: Alcohol, Grief, and Mental illness

m4rtt4's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective medium-paced

3.5

"It's me, hi, I'm the problem, it's me."
Emotional, raw and tangible with some real good examples of how to do and not do your relationships, though it would have been better if I had related more to Alderton's life experiences (but do I wish to relate to alcoholism though?...)

All the parts where the story of her life went on were interesting and nice to listen to, but the more life guide -like parts that tried to be funny weren't really funny at all and made me cringe and wish they had been cut out. Still worth reading/listening to, especially if your sense of humour is different from mine lol

The part about getting older in the very end was my favourite one, as I have been experiencing a continuous aging crisis since I was effing 13 and it's still going strong now at 20, I'm absolutely horrified about turning 30 and yes I keep rambling on and on but yeah read this book especially if you are in your 20s or 30s thank you and bye

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Cancer, Death, Eating disorder, and Mental illness

Moderate: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, and Drug use

laraximenes's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Dolly felt to me like the big sister I never had. A hug. That’s what this book was.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Mental illness

allydoessomereading's review against another edition

funny reflective medium-paced

3.75

Dolly Alderton reflect on her twenties and the love she felt and experienced in her twenties with such richness and passion. I feel envious of the depth to all the relationships she reflects on, and I feel comforted in learning about the existentialism surrounding love and ageing is experienced by almost all.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Grief, Alcoholism, Self harm, Child death, Death, and Terminal illness

evasophias's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

a solid read <3 felt like having a convo w bestie but that’s bc she annotated it. LOVE U IZZY!!! anyway very cute and funny and spoke fax. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Addiction, Body shaming, Eating disorder, and Alcohol