Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh

69 reviews

nixieba25f's review

emotional funny reflective fast-paced

5.0

Allie Brosh does it again with another brilliant, funny, and devastatingly relatable book about life as a weirdo.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Drug use, Grief, Mental illness, and Death

nicolebliss's review

dark emotional funny hopeful fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness and Suicide

stromjm's review

emotional funny reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Medical content

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Death

dytiscusfriend's review

emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Moving and delightful. Always a profound experience to spend some time in Allie Brosh's mind. This book made me feel less alone in my own. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body shaming, Car accident, Confinement, Death, Excrement, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, and Drug use

Her sister died in a train to car collision while she was recovering from a major illness and she describes a surgery in graphic detail. This is only a few pages but it's intense.

cakrolik's review

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

Minor: Animal death, Drug use, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

racheloddment's review

funny lighthearted sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Grief

Moderate: Death

coffinfinite's review

emotional funny hopeful sad fast-paced

5.0

I loved the original Hyperbole and a Half, so when I learned Brosh had a new book out buying it was a no-brainer. I recall laughing hysterically through most of HAAH, and went into Solutions and Other Problems expecting more of the same. What I encountered instead was something far more thoughtful and emotionally complex. Brosh perfectly captures the absurdity and tragedy of being alive, her illustrations (all 1,678 of them) each being worth a thousand words. Her tales of trying to befriend a sardine, of coping with a neighbour mysteriously hammering before 8am, and of experiencing profound loneliness, are all witty and poignant. Despite being eternally self deprecating, Brosh comes off as an incredibly likeable human being. She shares the stories of her life with an intimacy that makes it feel like she is confiding exclusively in you.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Medical content, and Grief

madamepincers's review

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

This book is incredibly funny, heart-wrenching, wonderful, unique, and bizarre. It really enjoyed it. I've seen many reviews saying offhandedly that "there's so much dark humour/passively depressing stuff that it's clear this author should get help" and like... yeah-- it's a perfect follow up to Brosh's musings on depression and anxiety and feeling out of place in Hyperbole and a Half. It explains a lot of context. It deals with extremely difficult topics (like her sister's death, her own very serious surgeries and almost bleeding to death from internal bleeding, etc).

It's hard to categorise it as funny or sad. It's both. It's overwhelmingly emotional and all over the place and brilliant.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Suicide, Medical content, Mental illness, Death, and Grief

sebrittainclark's review

emotional funny sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Mental illness

honeybeatslibrary's review

dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

This is a book of essays again from Allie Brosh. I would say this book is significantly less humorous than her first book, but she is dealing with a lot of personal trauma in this book. Yes there are funny moments in this book, don't get me wrong. My favorite essay is Cat. That is not actually a shock if you know me, and honestly it perfectly described living with a cat, and cat's funny attachments with toys. But the chapter on the intense trauma Allie experienced with her health, the death of her sister, her divorce, etc were heartbreaking, but so beautifully written and honestly brilliantly illustrated. I really enjoyed this book, it was an interesting read. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, and Mental illness