Reviews tagging 'Drug use'

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan

3 reviews

fkshg8465's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

After reading this book, the hypochondriac in me is grateful to know the existence of this disease, in case it happens to me and I need a doctor to look into it.

I’m sorry she had to go through this. My mom was misdiagnosed for a long time, and by the time we finally got an accurate diagnosis, we had only three weeks left together. So I know a little about this, even though my mom’s disease was something entirely different. As such, my compassion meter was very high on this one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cancer, Confinement, Drug use, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

thereaderfriend's review

emotional informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, and Terminal illness

Minor: Alcoholism, Drug use, and Alcohol

Very informative and interesting. Kept me on my toes

indyemmajones's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Death

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