Reviews tagging 'Forced institutionalization'

Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction by David Sheff

5 reviews

kaaylareads's review

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Alcoholism, Forced institutionalization, Addiction, Drug abuse, and Mental illness

melonque's review

emotional inspiring slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Addiction, Alcohol, and Drug abuse

remimicha's review

challenging emotional funny informative reflective tense medium-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Chronic illness, Medical content, Mental illness, Addiction, Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Forced institutionalization, Drug use, and Drug abuse

anton13's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

To say that I cried is an understatement. This book hits close to home and I’m glad I read it. Honestly I think I should’ve read it sooner. It’s a heartbreaking story that sadly so many people can relate to. Hearing how David took on all that emotion and how he put it as his responsibility to get his son sober, I understood and then seeing him let go more idk how to explain how that felt but I just understand this book and yeah. I think no matter what your background is this is a book everyone should read. But beware cause it’s an emotional roller coaster 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Violence, and Drug use

Moderate: Alcohol, Forced institutionalization, Alcoholism, Self harm, Medical content, Mental illness, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Cancer, Car accident, Dementia, Kidnapping, Murder, Animal death, Blood, Death of parent, and Panic attacks/disorders

raelin's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

What feels like an honest reflection on the struggles of being the family member of a person struggling with addiction. 

I appreciated the times when David really  stopped to analyze whether what he remembered is true or just how he has painted things in his memory. 

I am immediately off to read Nic’s book Tweak. 

As a person with a family member who is newly in recovery I was very interested in hearing someone else tell their story of how the addiction effected them, even though they were not the one using. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, and Mental illness