Reviews tagging 'Forced institutionalization'

Broken (in the best possible way) by Jenny Lawson

5 reviews

qrschulte's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

This book is just as enjoyable and funny as her first two, but boy was it also soooo sad at parts. Highly recommend the audiobook, read by Lawson herself. And to anyone who says our healthcare system is fine and doesn’t need reform, I request you read Chapter 9: An Open Letter to My Insurance Company, and then tell me the US HAS a really great system. A favorite quote from the book: “If simple words fixed terrible things, then terrible things wouldn’t exist.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, and Alcohol

Minor: Gore and Fire/Fire injury

ladythana's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Medical content

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, and Dementia

Minor: Death, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, and Grief

caseythereader's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective fast-paced

4.0

 - I've been reading Jenny Lawson's writing for over a decade now. She's always been able to bounce between the absurd with the serious, and to find the absurdities within the serious things.
- She writes so clearly about what it's like to live with depression and anxiety, and how those conditions can so easily swallow your entire life - even when you're on the other side of it and are dealing with the financial and social fallout.
- Much less taxidermy in this book than previous books, just a heads up in case that's the reason you love her, lol. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Medical trauma, and Death of parent

meganelise's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Chronic illness and Medical content

Minor: Animal death and Forced institutionalization

tinytrashqueen's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Chronic illness, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Ableism, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Dementia, and Medical trauma

Minor: Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, and Forced institutionalization

Description of animal slaughter, several mentions of insects/spiders