Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Tweak: by Nic Sheff

11 reviews

thatchickengirl23's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Alcohol, Blood, Alcoholism, and Addiction

Moderate: Self harm, Sexual content, Medical content, and Suicidal thoughts

jessica_luvs's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Grief, Blood, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Drug use, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Vomit, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical trauma, Infidelity, Addiction, Alcoholism, Mental illness, Medical content, Suicide, and Abandonment

kather_doc's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Addiction, Blood, Cursing, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, and Drug use

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Eating disorder, Vomit, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Suicide

Minor: Infidelity and Self harm

cleo_j's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Mental illness, and Drug abuse

kipibookclub's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Grief, Adult/minor relationship, Chronic illness, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Violence, Body horror, Mental illness, Addiction, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, and Physical abuse

rabidmilfs's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

best book i have ever read

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Mental illness

Moderate: Sexual content

applesaucecreachur's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

Before getting into what this book offered, I need to mention the racial descriptions (and unnecessary and inaccurate accents by the audiobook reader), fatphobia, and subtle sexism were all highly offputting. That said, Tweak gives naked insight into one young man's path to, struggle with, and recovery from addiction. I am glad that I read what seems to be an accurate (or at least realistic) account of such an experience. I will carry this with me in my practice as a care-giver. That said, Nic Sheff did not write solely about crime and drug use. He wrote about introspection, spirituality, relationships, meaning, and healing. It may not be a highly necessary book (though maybe D.A.R.E. die-hards would suggest otherwise), but I am grateful nonetheless that I came across it.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, Drug use, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Toxic friendship, and Medical content

Moderate: Sexism, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Infidelity, Racism, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Fatphobia and Adult/minor relationship

thalia_gossling's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug use, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Blood, Drug abuse, Alcohol, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, and Self harm

halosreputation's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.25

Bought this after reading Beautiful Boy (the companion memoir) not expecting to like it as much - I actually enjoyed it more. It's more fast-paced and less repetitive in comparison, reads more like a story, and offers the full picture of what actually happened with Nic. I don't know which I would suggest reading first - Beautiful Boy offers a lot of interesting facts and research into drug addiction and of course the devastating outside perspective of the parent. I would recommend Tweak if you're purely interested in the first-person perspective of addiction. Reading Tweak afterward definitely felt like filling in all of the gaps in David's story. I enjoyed both of them, but feel more connected with Nic's story, though I suspect that is an age/circumstance thing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cursing, Toxic relationship, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Sexual violence, Mental illness, Infidelity, Gaslighting, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Blood, Violence, Self harm, Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Death, Fatphobia, and Suicidal thoughts

arabellag_13's review against another edition

emotional sad slow-paced

3.0

I found this book really interesting it shows a raw and honest  reality of what people with addiction go through, however the writing is pretty shit and coming from a author who in the book talks about how good he is at writing it's pretty ironic. It especially stood out how weak his writing was when after I read beautiful boy from his fathers point of view. Much better writing, a lot more interesting and more emotional.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug use, Drug abuse, and Mental illness

Moderate: Alcohol and Alcoholism