Reviews tagging 'Vomit'

Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life by Christie Tate

11 reviews

marim139's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

What a wild ride. I enjoyed this book! If you want to escape reality and read about someone else’s trauma, then this is the book for you. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

Moderate: Toxic relationship and Abandonment

Minor: Addiction

thequeenofsheba3's review against another edition

emotional hopeful slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, and Death of parent

amberinpieces's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Sexual content

Moderate: Cursing, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, and Grief

Minor: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Vomit, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

onewoman_bookclub's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Self harm, and Sexual content

Moderate: Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, and Death of parent

noshelf_control's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming and Eating disorder

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, and Pregnancy

katylizg's review against another edition

challenging dark funny fast-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Death, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Excrement, Vomit, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Dysphoria

brogan7's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny lighthearted sad medium-paced

2.0

This book chugs along at break-neck speed.  Unfortunately it's equal parts fascinating and horrifying, sort of like watching a train wreck.  I kept waiting for her to ,

leave her terrible therapist, but she never did!

I don't know how she got Lori Gottlieb to do a positive blurb for the cover; I really liked Maybe you should talk to someone and I had respect for Gottlieb as a therapist.  But any therapist should know there were serious problems with Christie Tate's therapy, and not put their name on the front cover of this book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Violence and Vomit

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

mary_pat's review against another edition

emotional hopeful medium-paced

4.0

Memoir that read like a novel. I read this in two days, could not put it down. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Death, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Vomit, and Pregnancy

jennfeld's review against another edition

I didn't finish this book because I personally wasn't ready. My trauma and triggers were very relatable to the content in the book, and while I thought I was ready to get through the book, I wasn't. I found that the book triggered my anxieties and it wasn't in my best interest to continue. I'm sure it is great for many other readers, but I will have to wait a while before I'm able to think about restarting. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder and Vomit

reading_between_the_trees's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

This book stirred up a lot of controversy on bookstagram about ethical therapy practices, and although I am not a therapist, I have gone to therapy myself and spoken to friends in the field at length about this book. Ultimately, my opinion is that therapy is completely voluntary, and different things will work for different people. While Dr. Rosen's techniques may be unconventional, this book is a memoir, and his techniques clearly worked well for the author.

My biggest takeaway from this book was about honesty. With others, with yourself, about yourself. Honesty is not something you just have to commit to, but something you have to work towards and uncover, because typically it is buried in shame and embarrassment. It was really inspiring to read about Christie learning to confront her most shameful secrets as a mode of liberation. It inspired me to really examine my self-talk and the ways I interact with and convey myself to others.

One qualm I had about this book was that I wish the reader had gotten more insight into Christie's journey with her eating disorder. I understand that the book was about group therapy, and maybe she focused more on her eating disorder in the meetings she attended for it, but it felt like a big part of the story in the beginning, and I was curious to see how her management of it was entangled with her healing in other areas of her life that she did discuss in group. Overall though, this was a very powerful memoir that I would recommend.

Please look at the content warnings before reading the book. The parts about eating disorders were especially difficult to read about.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Death, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual assault, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Vomit