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Hysterical, heart-breaking, and inspiring. This is one of the best books about anxiety and depression I have ever read and I highly recommend it.
In places, this was funny and clever and awkward and honest and enlightening and weird and all tied together and really well done. In other places, it felt like a blog and not like a memoir. I lost track of the train for periods of time. Shining a light on different ways that mental health issues can manifest (and how a partner can support in useful ways and know when to just let you be yourself) is a highlight of the book. It does live up to its subtitle--a funny book about horrible things-- bu
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Read this for the April meeting of my Atlanta book club (which I sadly was unable to attend). I wasn't familiar with Jenny Lawson before reading this memoir, but am very interested in her story and now follow her on Twitter as well. My favorite parts of this book were when she really tackled her mental health issues, how she deals with them (so often with humor), and what they mean for her and her family. The mock interview with her husband in the middle of the book is a perfect example of that
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I laughed and laughed and learned. And in some places I wondered why I kept reading because it seemed so forced. Glad I kept going.
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