Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Furiously Happy: A Funny Book about Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson

8 reviews

perytonne's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Self harm, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Chronic illness, Cursing, and Animal death

chelle22's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Self harm, and Mental illness

moodreadererin's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Chronic illness, and Self harm

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Stalking, Suicide, and Eating disorder

kimberlyreynolds's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

3.0

For me, there were 5 star chapters in this book, and there were 1 to 2 star chapters in this book - but since I'm still glad I read it and the 5 star chapters were so powerful, I'm going with 3 stars. Jenny writes about mental health like no one else, so when she goes deep and honest and serious about it, it's everything. It's just that there are a lot of other entertaining but bizarre stories in this book that I don't think really bolster the mental health discussion she's aiming for. I would love to have seen those chapters cut by half and replaced with more of the incredible way she paints a picture of mental illness that helps both those who are struggling with it and those who aren't truly understand it better. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Self harm

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

spellygirl's review against another edition

dark informative reflective slow-paced

3.0

I did like decent chunks of this book, though I didn't find it nearly as funny as some others. As someone with both anxiety and depression I recognized a lot of the topics at hand. 

Read this a few years ago as an ebook, and gave it 2⭐. The audiobook is definitely better. Would have liked it better without all the taxidermied/dead animals.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Body shaming, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Self harm

Minor: Blood

jennikify's review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Self harm, and Suicide

Minor: Chronic illness

bookishprincess's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Suicide, and Mental illness

writteninthebooks's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Minor: Suicide and Suicidal thoughts