Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

6536 reviews

cptang's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body horror, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Incest, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, and Alcohol

unavaleriaconpecas's review against another edition

challenging informative sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Eating disorder, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Terminal illness

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

elegood's review

funny reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse

shannon987's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexual assault, and Death of parent

fidgetjetski's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Vomit, and Death of parent

Moderate: Body shaming, Cancer, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship

paigezaz's review against another edition

challenging emotional medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Terminal illness, and Vomit

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body shaming, and Alcohol

ci_eden's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative sad medium-paced

4.0

I wrote a long review but the app crashed so

Listening felt like it definitely would help things be interpreted better, especially the naivety when she was young, and the dismissive denial after her mother's death. I loved her dry wit and it helped me get through some parts - this is definitely something you should only read when you're in the right mental space. I had to stop listening a couple of times as I got uncomfortable, which is also a testament to her writing

Oh I'm so mad for her that they didn't let her direct/produce and episode because she obviously has a talent for it.

I almost need a list of events just to process my feelings about everything that happened because there was so much that it is easy to forget some.

I'm glad she got an ethical therapist and she's able to name what her mum did to her

I have lots of questions, mainly because the book ended so abruptly. What's her career now? Is she even working? What's she looking forward to? What does she like, what are her hobbies?

Did her and her bio father talk again? Does she still talk to her dad? What do her brother's think about their bio father? Do they know?

Where does she live now?

I suppose she's left lots of things to ask in interviews but the book did end quite abruptly, especially since she explained most things in detail. It feels like she wrote howshe normally did and then didn't feel comfortable sharing so cut a couple of chapters out. We do get a bit of reflection but I would've liked it to end with her "now", not just what her mum did,

as just like with the scales, her mum's actions don't define her.

I would recommend this

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Infidelity, Physical abuse, Rape, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Classism

am_moore's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Heartbreaking and important memoir. Love that the author uses present tense as it makes the journey very impactful. Recommend listening to the audio read by the author. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Alcoholism and Sexual content

seasonedreadings's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, and Sexual content

Moderate: Death of parent

fransescarosario's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.0

I, too, am glad her mom died. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, and Death of parent