Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Broken (in the Best Possible Way) by Jenny Lawson

76 reviews

jenniferbbookdragon's review against another edition

funny informative fast-paced

5.0

Lawson's humor is laugh out loud funny and sometimes crude, and brilliantly captures life with chronic mental and physical conditions. From a pointed analysis of the US health insurance industry  to the day to day struggles of being unable to remember a movie you watched and loved, her ability to see the positive without being slap happy is a gift.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Cursing, Mental illness, and Medical content

silverhill's review against another edition

emotional funny fast-paced

3.0

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Graphic: Mental illness

jillibean's review against another edition

dark funny lighthearted reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Minor: Mental illness

echris's review against another edition

4.0

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Graphic: Mental illness

kbweis's review against another edition

challenging funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Graphic: Mental illness

irisameliaink's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, Mental illness, Dementia, Medical trauma, and Pandemic/Epidemic

hmetwade's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Moderate: Ableism, Animal death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Alcohol

caitlancole's review against another edition

funny hopeful lighthearted reflective fast-paced

3.0

Not my brand of humor, but I related to her mental health struggles and found many of those reflections well put and poignant. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Excrement

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

kristyderp's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

I won't rate this since it is a memoir. 
It's my first experience with this author, and I listened to the audiobook on Libby.
This book is oriented with serious and emotional chapters interlaced with silly comedic chapters. I really liked and related to the honest, vulnerable parts about mental illness, especially depression and anxiety, and learning to live with your demons. The humor was hit or miss for me; some of the situations were pretty funny, but sometimes the jokes were a little long winded. The final chapter of the book was a really nice metaphor and I listened to it twice so I can hold on to it and remember it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Excrement, and Alcohol

qrschulte's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

This book is just as enjoyable and funny as her first two, but boy was it also soooo sad at parts. Highly recommend the audiobook, read by Lawson herself. And to anyone who says our healthcare system is fine and doesn’t need reform, I request you read Chapter 9: An Open Letter to My Insurance Company, and then tell me the US HAS a really great system. A favorite quote from the book: “If simple words fixed terrible things, then terrible things wouldn’t exist.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, and Alcohol

Minor: Gore and Fire/Fire injury