It wasn't that bad, and I seem to have come out of it fairly unscathed, all things considered. (My sister, maybe not entirely unscathed, but yay therapy!) The book is definitely a bit of a hard read, though.

Though not as hard as J. Michael Straczynski's memoirs, which are up in Related Works! I'm reading them now and (a) wow, that guy can tell a story, I'm riveted; and (b) his early life was just incredibly awful, so awful I found myself hoping he'd made it up because it would have been so hard to live through that. The memoirs are excellent writing, though, at least so far (though it might be easier to start reading a third of the way in, once he escapes).