Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Starvation Heights: The Chilling True Story of the Doctor Who Starved Her Patients to Death by Gregg Olsen

4 reviews

sersi's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Eating disorder, and Medical content

danimacuk's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Chronic illness, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Grief, Murder, and Gaslighting

Minor: Sexism, Suicide, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

avidreaderandgeekgirl's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.0

     The narration was amazing for a non-fiction book. The book also kept me interested and engaged. I would have liked to know what happened with the sisters' estate in more clear terms. I'm shocked but not that this woman was never truly stopped. It's horrifying. 
       As someone who's struggled with disordered eating, I know how little function you have when you limit calories to an extreme. So I can understand how she manipulated people when their brains weren't functioning properly. When you're not getting enough food your body shuts down complex thoughts and the like, to direct calories/nutrition to essential tasks like breathing.
Overall a very interesting and horrifying book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexism, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

bookswithmybulldog's review

dark slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Eating disorder, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Excrement, Vomit, and Medical trauma