Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh

69 reviews

alizirrah's review

emotional funny hopeful sad fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Grief, Death, and Mental illness

Minor: Excrement

ckbarnard_0317's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective medium-paced

5.0

I don't think a book has ever managed to make me laugh this hard before. The fact that it also delves unflinchingly into uncomfortable things (mental illness, grief, divorce) is frankly amazing. Allie Brosh is a gift to humanity. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Chronic illness, Death, and Suicide

somelatenightreading's review

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Grief

Moderate: Suicide and Death

Minor: Animal death

kitten's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Mental illness

jlboro's review against another edition

dark emotional funny lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

This graphic novel memoir will give you all the emotions on the emotion wheel. Full spectrum of feels on this one! And it’s glorious. It’s absolutely masterful how incredibly funny and how fully heart-felt depression, death, humanity’s existence, self-discovery, and questioning yourself can be. Thank you Allie!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Death

jojo50's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Made me laughed til my sides hurt and I cried

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Mental illness, and Suicide

jessthanthree's review against another edition

adventurous funny sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Grief, and Mental illness

Moderate: Drug use

nmcannon's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

After witnessing the scrapped raw humor of Hyperbole and a Half, I was curious where Brosh would go with this sequel memoir. Also: a library shelf was left unattended in my vicinity. 

Like its predecessor, Solutions and Other Problems is a collection of comics. The memoir has no plot per se: only a journey. It took me a bit to figure out where Brosh was going. Hyperbole’s intense exposure and authorial vulnerability carries over this sequel. At first, these stories seemed like lone fragments with little connection. Then came the chapter where Brosh discusses her younger sister’s sudden, violent death and I went oh.

I have a brother. He is not dead. But, my God, I cannot imagine any greater, utter shattering of the self than the loss of him. I cannot imagine ever again feeling the earth’s spin the same way. Each of Brosh’s chapters were spokes on the crushing wheel of grief, and the central hub was the gaping wound of her sister’s absence. Stack that on top of Brosh’s own health problems, the pandemic, the 2016 USA Election, and damn. It’s a wonder Brosh can get out of bed. 

Solutions and Other Problems is funny—but the humor is bleak. Nihilism threads itself through each piece. Brosh’s “nothing matters, life’s not fair, and everything’s absurd, so we might as well have fun” philosophy seems to get her through the day, so kudos to her. Thankfully, the book ends on a hopeful note and urges the reader to befriend oneself in all one’s weird glory.

Overall, I’d recommend this comic to adults who need someone to be with them in a dark place. Check the content warnings, and best of luck out there. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Chronic illness, Excrement, Stalking, Grief, Mental illness, and Medical content

Moderate: Death, Vomit, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Car accident

The level and description of triggering content in Solutions and Other Problems is either similar or one notch above the previous memoir, Hyperbole and a Half.

rennyrocket's review against another edition

emotional funny sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Death

dandelionsanddragons's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness