Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

I'm Glad My Mom Died, by Jennette McCurdy

1707 reviews

cantfindmybookmark's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Body shaming, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Cancer, and Mental illness

texas_reznikoff's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Body horror, Cancer, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Gaslighting, Terminal illness, Violence, Addiction, Sexual content, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, Medical content, and Mental illness

noroomforghosts's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Cancer, Child abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Eating disorder, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Cursing, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Vomit

cemorgan1998's review

hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

I really loved the authenticity of Jennette discussing her life experience and coming to terms with her abusive relationship with her mum. The only downside was I felt that the final section of the book was a bit rushed and each chapter she aged years, whilst earlier on felt more gradual and like real-time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Alcoholism, Cancer, Death of parent, and Emotional abuse

niekreatywna's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Grief, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Addiction, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Death, Body shaming, Alcohol, Vomit, Medical content, Chronic illness, Child abuse, Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, Terminal illness, Sexual harassment, Self harm, Dysphoria, Domestic abuse, and Cancer

selenatothemax's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Mental illness, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Alcoholism, Terminal illness, Vomit, Eating disorder, Grief, Dysphoria, and Alcohol

charlie_bro's review

emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

Phew, this was a heck of a book. It was very easy to read in terms of writing style, but damn it‘s heavy. Every chapter you feel like it could not possibly get worse, but it does. The trauma that Jennette McCurdy must have lived through is tremendous.
If you are in a stable position mentally, I would definitely and 100% recommend this book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, and Alcoholism

connorjdaley's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

A memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star about her upbringing and acting career. Who hasn’t been drawn in by the name of this alone? 

What can be said about this one that hasn’t already been said? Probably nothing. This is dark, gritty, honest, bare, and overly revealing. It’s written like someone just needed to get the words out, and with the content involved, I’d bet that really was the case. Living out someone else’s dream is not something you should have to do. Parents shouldn’t live vicariously through their children. Your life should be your own. 

An important view into how the world, mothers included, treat their daughters/girls and women. Personally a 5/5*. The author’s narration was an added gift to the novel. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Child abuse, Grief, Toxic friendship, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cancer, Death of parent, Addiction, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Cursing, Toxic relationship, Eating disorder, and Mental illness

freshpageonthedesk's review against another edition

dark funny informative medium-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, and Mental illness

astareads's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

Shocking to read about the kind of people who become parents and about the struggles they leave behind in their children, in more than one generation. I've never known anything about McCurdy before listening to this and I didn't feel like I would've needed to, but maybe there are things I would've understood the context of had I been a fan of hers through the years.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Grief, Terminal illness, Vomit, Body horror, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Mental illness, and Self harm

Moderate: Infidelity