Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh

69 reviews

ratxheart's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Medical trauma, Car accident, Grief, Drug use, Alcohol, Death, Excrement, Cancer, Chronic illness, Terminal illness, Animal death, and Suicide

Moderate: Body horror and Cursing

jhbandcats's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Wow. This follow-up to 2013's Hyperbole and a Half is compassionate, painful, wildly funny, painful again, and overall powerful. Brosh went through all sorts of awful things that would rock the most  stable person, and she wasn't a stable person. For someone teetering on the edge of uncontrollable depression, she has turned that awfulness into a beautiful book about vulnerability,
strength, and resilience.

Every word - and picture - is so true. She describes an argument with her husband in a grocery store, and I
ached for both of them. She describes the mental confusion of depression, when reality isn't quite real. As in her first book, there is a lot about dogs here, plus a cat, and lots of horse poop.

I can't recommend this highly enough

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Suicide

ameliabunker_12's review against another edition

dark emotional funny inspiring lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness

isaaclist's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content and Mental illness

carol_ann's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Drug use, Grief, and Mental illness

ydnavarro's review against another edition

dark emotional funny fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Suicide

menomica's review against another edition

funny hopeful relaxing sad

God, I love Ally Brosh’s style of writing and comedy. It is so nonsensical and discombobulated yet perfectly so. I love how the book managed to talk about serious topics such as death and loneliness with an approachable cynical humor. This is the perfect companion book to Hyperbole & A Half

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Mental illness

Moderate: Suicide, Drug use, Dysphoria, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Animal death and Medical content

qqjj's review

dark emotional funny sad slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Suicide and Drug use

lgmelcher's review against another edition

emotional funny fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Car accident, and Mental illness

florina's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Minor: Suicide