Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

203 reviews

tamsterdam_reads's review against another edition

emotional sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Forced institutionalization, Sexism, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Bullying, Toxic relationship, Miscarriage, Gaslighting, and Mental illness

Moderate: Cursing, Child abuse, Alcoholism, Drug use, and Alcohol

Minor: Drug use, Infidelity, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Sexism

ksmith_23's review

dark emotional sad fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Pregnancy, Mental illness, Stalking, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, Misogyny, Alcohol, Suicide, and Miscarriage

marysunburn's review

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad fast-paced

4.75

A harrowing, painful, yet sweet and chipper dive into the mind of one of this generation's great pop queens. The story we needed to have told all these years of controversy and gossip, an inside glance at her career and adventures – and yes, Blackout IS her greatest album, I'm glad I agree with the author – which determines a definite skip forward in the cultural moment and the way we look at celebrities. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Addiction, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Ableism, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Drug use, Eating disorder, Medical content, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Abortion, Forced institutionalization, Misogyny, and Toxic relationship

The book is a first-person account of Britney Spears' real-life journey through her conservatorship, which granted her father complete and total control on everything she did: what she ate, what she wore, how she did her job and how, or if, she was allowed to see her family. The singer is institutionalized and forced to take prescription drugs.

_ren's review

challenging dark emotional funny inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

3.5

I have read some of the reviews, and understand that people who usually read memoirs have their educated opinions about Britney's memoir feeling like a girl's dairy or just generally unpolished. I, as someone who does not often read memoirs, thought that the writing style had some pros and some cons. The pros being the casual conversation feel of the whole book that made me feel that this was truly Britney speaking to us (some say her social medias are still highly controlled, I personally do not believe that), and the cons being the numerous jumps and time skips that were not warned about or acknowledged while I was reading. The time-skips were quite an annoyance at times because as someone who has kept up with the Free Britney Movement since summer of 2022, I felt that some details we uncovered that were crucial to the movement were not mentioned from Britney's perspective. I would have loved to seen more of Britney's version/feelings toward specific things we had uncovered about her case. In the end, this is definitely her way of saying FU to everyone who had wronged her through books, interviews, and documentaries. I am proud of her for just that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Physical abuse, Misogyny, Medical trauma, Torture, Abandonment, Cursing, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Bullying, Eating disorder, Medical content, Gaslighting, Forced institutionalization, Body horror, Confinement, Violence, Toxic relationship, Body shaming, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Grief, Drug abuse, Vomit, Sexism, Abortion, Addiction, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Pregnancy and Fatphobia

Minor: Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic friendship

add_a_little_spook's review

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Medical trauma, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Torture, Toxic friendship, Forced institutionalization, Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Body shaming, Abortion, and Miscarriage

sweetmusic22's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

GOOD FOR HER!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Bullying, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child abuse, Forced institutionalization, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Grief, Misogyny, Abortion, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Torture, Toxic relationship, Pedophilia, and Pregnancy

If you're not in the right head space, don't read this!

aseel_reads's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

Wow, some people are actual garbage and I can't believe the actual brainwashing power the media and paparazzi had to make us all feel negative thoughts about Brittany during the 00s. Absolutely disgusting and I hope only good things for Brittany in the future (and a lot of bad karma for her family and the media people, and her awful exs) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Gaslighting, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Forced institutionalization, Bullying, Infidelity, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Pregnancy, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Alcohol, Miscarriage, Sexual harassment, and Stalking

Minor: Physical abuse

hayleyvem's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Infidelity, Confinement, Abandonment, Alcohol, Medical trauma, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Pregnancy and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Addiction, and Death of parent

jmiles758's review against another edition

emotional reflective tense fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Medical trauma, and Panic attacks/disorders

estherk809's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Britney has gone through so much, and she’s persisted despite it all. It inspired me to reconnect with myself and use my voice.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Medical trauma

Moderate: Forced institutionalization

Minor: Abortion