Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

3762 reviews

liza_kruger's review

reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Vomit

narcolex's review

emotional funny sad medium-paced

5.0

I’m amazed that Jeanette McCurdy survived what she experienced.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Medical content, and Death of parent

Moderate: Sexual assault

ks_ks's review

challenging emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Vomit, and Death of parent

divya_s_'s review

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.0

This book should come with some serious content warnings for physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, eating disorders, and sexual harassment. Listening to Jeanette read this on audiobook was heartbreaking. It is so vulnerable and brave of her to write her story this way. She has been through so much in her life, her resilience is kind of astounding. Writing the book as a progression of her own thoughts and viewpoints over the course of her life was crazy to experience, especially the ways that she excuses her mother’s abusive behavior and is such deep denial of the manipulation her mother uses against her. I thought this book really shed light on the duality and difficulties of having a parent who is clearly engaging in abusive behavior but how a child will cling to the moments of connection and love to forgive or move past those behaviors. Jeanette basically did this for her mother literally until the last chapter of the memoir. Several of the experiences she describes were truly upsetting and shocking. While she did find moments to bring lightness and humor to the story, I would say this is quite a tough listen/read overall with not a lot of opportunities to be funny due to the content of her story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, and Sexual harassment

cathyjzx's review

dark funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.5

Very raw and honest, content and the abuse was hard to get through at times. Some well written lines and observations and lots of dry zingers, esp for early childhood parts, that get lost in the retelling of intense trauma of the middle section — maybe that’s appropriate tho

First audiobook I’ve finished, I think her reading adds to it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, and Dysphoria

kiwilovekiwi16's review

challenging emotional funny sad medium-paced

5.0

Audiobook read by author incredible

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Sexual assault, and Alcohol

virgo_punk's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, and Medical trauma

aflat1218's review against another edition

emotional sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Death of parent

Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis

heshe's review

emotional funny sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Mental illness, and Sexual assault

geerbeer's review against another edition

dark lighthearted reflective tense fast-paced

3.5

Ik had super hoge verwachtingen, maar het blijft toch vrij oppervlakkig allemaal. Wel knap om alles op papier te zetten en alles rondom de eetstoornis is erg concreet en goed uitgelegd. Al met al merkte ik ook dat ik het gevoel van 'stress' en de nare gevoelens erg overnam. Dat is dus goed schrijf- en voorleeswerk, maar daardoor is het voor mij niet per se een boek dat ik zou aanraden of herlezen/-luisteren.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child abuse, Cursing, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Alcohol