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I found this a quirky, fun biography to read.
Jenny is very open about living with anxiety and depression, and has used this book to reflect on parts of her life with a great sense of humour. In particular I loved her description of depression:
Depression is like... it's like when you meticulously scroll up through through hundreds of pages in a word document to find a specific paragraph you need to fix, and then you try to type it but it automatically takes you right back down to the bottom because you totally lost your place and then your boss walks in while you have your head planted on your desk.. Wait, that's not it, depression is like.. when you don't have any scissors to cut that thick plastic safety tie off the new scissors that you just bought because you couldn't find your scissors. And then you just say 'f.. it' and try everything else in the world to get the scissors to open, but all you have are plastic butter knives and they aren't doing anything, so you stand in the kitchen holding scissors you can't use because you can't find scissors and then you get frustrated and throw the scissors in the garbage disposal and sleep on the couch for a week. And that's what depression is like.
Jenny is very open about living with anxiety and depression, and has used this book to reflect on parts of her life with a great sense of humour. In particular I loved her description of depression:
Depression is like... it's like when you meticulously scroll up through through hundreds of pages in a word document to find a specific paragraph you need to fix, and then you try to type it but it automatically takes you right back down to the bottom because you totally lost your place and then your boss walks in while you have your head planted on your desk.. Wait, that's not it, depression is like.. when you don't have any scissors to cut that thick plastic safety tie off the new scissors that you just bought because you couldn't find your scissors. And then you just say 'f.. it' and try everything else in the world to get the scissors to open, but all you have are plastic butter knives and they aren't doing anything, so you stand in the kitchen holding scissors you can't use because you can't find scissors and then you get frustrated and throw the scissors in the garbage disposal and sleep on the couch for a week. And that's what depression is like.
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This book is excellent! If you struggle with depression, are completely depressed, slightly depressed, not depressed at all but know someone who is then this book is for you! Hilarious and heart breaking all at the same time. I would recommend this book to every person who needs a laugh, needs an understanding reassurance that you are indeed not alone, or just would like to understand what living with a depression/mental disorder is like. You will laugh. You will cry. You will be astounded. You will be confounded. You will want to buy small taxidermied animals and collect many cats with rad names. Seriously, drop what you area doing right now and get this book! As a side note, I "read" this book on audible and the narration is by the author - totally worth it!
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This book was highly rated as an audio and autobiography, so I wanted to listen to it.
To start... there’s a lot of sarcasm, funny one-liners and thought trains that amused me. But it got old... fast. I felt like that was all there was the rest of the book. I zoned out a lot of the time while listening to it on audio. I think I wanted more story and less on her going off on a tangent... which sometimes felt exaggerated or forced.
To start... there’s a lot of sarcasm, funny one-liners and thought trains that amused me. But it got old... fast. I felt like that was all there was the rest of the book. I zoned out a lot of the time while listening to it on audio. I think I wanted more story and less on her going off on a tangent... which sometimes felt exaggerated or forced.
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Jenny Lawson makes you think that you’re not alone with the crazy thoughts. And makes you think someone else is more quirky and even wonders about the wall or door or tree or koalas more than you do! Loved it!!
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Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcoholism, Cursing, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol
funny
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funny
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