Reviews tagging 'Alcoholism'

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan

7 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

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: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, Dysphoria, 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: Chronic illness, Confinement, Mental illness, Self harm, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Infertility, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Terminal illness, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Dementia, Grief, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

mxpringle's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Cancer, Chronic illness, Confinement, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

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

lizzie24601's review

dark emotional informative mysterious reflective 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 and Alcohol

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