Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines by Nic Sheff

13 reviews

littleseal's review against another edition

This was a hard fucking read. I had to put it down several times for a variety of reasons: the explicit discussion about drug abuse (I actually hyperventilated during one scene), the anger I felt towards the addiction, and life getting in the way.

I applaud anyone who can work with people with drug addiction. It's a hard thing to deal with, and why I stay pretty far away from it as a therapist. I wanted to scream when Nic was with 'Zelda'. 'Lauren' seemed like a walk in the park compared to the issues 'Zelda' brought out in Nic.

If you have a weak stomach, proceed with caution. However, I do feel that this book gave me pretty great insight into the world of addiction. Will I work with clients who abuse drugs? Probably not. But I can still appreciate the writing.

Side note, it was hilarious that James Frey book was mentioned since that was also a addiction book that turned out to be fake. I haven't seen anything about this one being fake, so going to hope it isn't.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

jams_is_rad's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

A must read if you want to understand addiction and its power from the perspective of someone who's life has been ripped apart by addiction 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Grief, and Alcohol

jasperreads's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Sexual content, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism and Blood

tamarakraljevic's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

taylorgraves555's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Blood, Vomit, and Alcohol

Moderate: Alcoholism, Cursing, Sexual content, Vomit, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death, Infidelity, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

thatchickengirl23's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

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

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

jessica_luvs's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

ellievelazquez's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

kather_doc's review

dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

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

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

Minor: Infidelity and Self harm

joharrismay's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

Nic Sheff is an amazing writer. I enjoyed his book and his fathers very much. Obviously they were hard to read knowing that happened to real life people. I wish they didn’t make this into a movie because people forget that Nic and David are actual people and they went through so much. This book did not hold back anything. It had so many difficult parts. This story is raw, emotional, tense, but also hopeful in a way. I recommend reading both books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Medical trauma