Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia by Marya Hornbacher

3 reviews

faerie_smutprincess69's review against another edition

dark hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

This was a graphic, first person, experience of livin with an eating disorder. As the reader, you get to witness the obsessive and addictive thoughts and behaviours around the auther's eating disorder throughout her life starting from very young. I felt a bit hopeless about her ever recovering from her condition because she just kept putting her body through hell no matter how bad it got. But there is a moment of victory in her life where her defiance to die brought her back from the brink of death - and that is where the hope lies in her story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Eating disorder, and Vomit

I do not recommend this book for people who have an eating disorder, or are actively trying to recover from an eating disorder - especially if your eating disorder is competitive in nature.

joemkl's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

3.75

I really liked this. It's well written, and although sometimes the pacing feels off, it's a fantastic insight into Hornbacher's mind.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Alcohol, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

nicnevin's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Heartbreaking and raw, it throws out any prenotions of what an eating disorder is. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Infertility, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Dementia, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Acephobia/Arophobia, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail