Reviews tagging 'Gaslighting'

I'm Glad My Mom Died, by Jennette McCurdy

830 reviews

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

adelinebal4's review

dark emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Grief, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

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

klimatyczny_bluszcz's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

It's hard to rate a book so vunerable and honest as this one. However, I also liked the construction and writing of it, so I decided to rate it anyway. So important and moving!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Mental illness, Grief, Addiction, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Chronic illness, Alcoholism, Sexual violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fatphobia, Death of parent, Cancer, Body shaming, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

allapaz's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

def read the content warnings before going in, but damn, Jennette McCurdy is a phenomenal writer, and hearing her story in her own words in her own voice is so powerful. she perfectly captures the difficulty and nuance and horrors and humor in all things mental health, fame, child stardom, abuse, trauma, family, friendships, relationships and reconciling who are parents are and who we see them to be.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Alcohol, Body shaming, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Addiction, Death of parent, Drug use, Grief, Vomit, Cancer, Panic attacks/disorders, and Physical abuse

tinyflame4's review

challenging dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Child abuse, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Self harm, Alcoholism, and Grief

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Blood, Drug use, Dysphoria, Cancer, and Gaslighting

mwetzel's review against another edition

emotional funny informative sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Mental illness, Cancer, Body shaming, Adult/minor relationship, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Cursing, Addiction, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Eating disorder, Child abuse, Alcoholism, Vomit, Death of parent, and Self harm

meaghanpal's review

dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

The beginning of this book felt a bit slow at points. Perhaps it was the choppy dialogue bits that I always find a bit confusing in memoirs because the dialogue surely can’t be one hundred percent what happened. Memory bits aside, the book was very interesting to hear about Jennette McCurdys point of view and her life experience especially when I saw a smal part of it on screen growing up. Also, I find it helpful to read about relationships with moms that are not the picture perfect best friend one depicted in Gilmore Girls. I relate to Jennette a lot more. The middle and end of the book were more fast paced with shorter chapters at points that helped the book flow. I guess I started to appreciate her writing style more once it got to the point where she was on Nickelodeon because I had more of a connection with that time in my own life. Jennette does a great job processing her emotions and experiences and I can only begin to imagine what a tiring and long process that was and is.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic friendship, Medical content, Addiction, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Drug use, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, Alcohol, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Cancer, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, and Vomit

Minor: Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Pedophilia, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Stalking, Sexual violence, and Self harm

Highly encourage anyone to read the trigger/content warnings the book is very graphic. While I think it is good I am cautious recommending it because of the explicit content.

becca_w_'s review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Cursing, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Stalking, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Medical content, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Addiction, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, and Sexual content

Moderate: Blood and Pedophilia

Minor: Abandonment

This book is great, but if you struggle with an eating disorder I would recommend not reading it. There is extremely triggering content related to that throughout the book! Just do what you think is the best for you :)

smolgalaxybrain's review

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Eating disorder, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Gaslighting, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Death of parent, Cancer, Body shaming, Vomit, and Self harm