Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Dzień dobry, potworku. Historie z terapii, które inspirują do walki o samego siebie by Catherine Gildiner

13 reviews

vickysalem's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicide attempt, Rape, Toxic relationship, Pedophilia, and Grief

lama_mo's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Child abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Grief, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, and Mental illness

alleemartin's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Drug abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Grief, Pedophilia, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Gaslighting, Addiction, Alcoholism, Eating disorder, Incest, Murder, Cancer, Physical abuse, Infidelity, Rape, Drug use, and Fatphobia

anncottrill's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Addiction, Child abuse, Mental illness, Rape, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Incest, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, and Sexual assault

katiejohns's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Eating disorder, Incest, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Abandonment, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Alcoholism, Cancer, Self harm, Child abuse, Body shaming, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide attempt, and Suicide

kalyna_jayn's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Colonisation, Classism, and Grief

tessazwaan's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

3.0

Okay tbh I loved this book for its readability - easy to read (tbf very intense traumatic stories so look at the trigger warnings first), very interesting and the cases so extreme that you want to  keep reading. However, to me it was problematic too, which is why I give this only three stars. 

First and foremost, I hate the emphasis on being “strong” (read: cope with excessive working, shutting off feelings and function “normally” in a kapitalist society). The sentence “She had to be tough, otherwise she would have formed a disorder” perfectly describes the tone of the book. 

Secondly, as a therapist, I feel like you should refrain from labelling people’s feeling as “whiny” or “needy”, especially since the people being called whiny and needy were severely abused. Sentences along the lines of “I wish people could hear this story when they are in my office complaining about insignificant childhood events” just don’t sit right with me. It’s disrespectful and lacks empathy, especially coming from a clinical psychologist. 

Third, there is some transphobia in this book. There’s deadnaming someone, only referring to her as a her after her surgeries and seeing a transgender woman explicitly as someone who could fulfill both a male and female role. I could have really done without that part, it also felt super unnecessary to add, since she wasn’t even a main character. 

Last but not least, how do you get consent to publish a life story from a dead man? Especially one from an Indigenous culture where keeping low profile is key? And this story was detailled as fuck? It felt just like she picked the most extreme stories to put in her book so her book could get as much shock effect as possible. 

So yeah, for me those issues took this from a five star review to three. I would recommend to read Maybe You Should Talk To Someone by Lori Gottlieb over this book any day. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Grief, Incest, Abandonment, Mental illness, Deadnaming, and Death of parent

florapants84's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Addiction, Abandonment, Sexual violence, Rape, Physical abuse, Infidelity, Forced institutionalization, Drug use, Drug abuse, Death of parent, Child death, Gaslighting, Self harm, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Incest, Grief, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Domestic abuse, Cursing, Confinement, Bullying, Body shaming, Blood, Animal death, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

sarahkate22's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Incest, Alcoholism, Grief, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Rape, Racism, Forced institutionalization, Domestic abuse, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Cancer, Vomit, Body shaming, Car accident, Infidelity, Religious bigotry, and Animal death

lindsayvale's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad tense fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Abandonment, Addiction, Body horror, Suicide attempt, Racism, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Child death, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Self harm, Rape, and Grief