This the second Jenny Lawson book that I’ve read. The first was Let’s Pretend This Never Happened. Both books were very funny and witty. Reading them felt like listening your manic friend ramble on for, oh, 10 or 12 hours non-stop. Actually, it was pretty exhausting. But, it was compelling to be privy to the inner mind of person diagnosed as a “high-functioning depressive with severe anxiety disorder, moderate clinical depression, and mild self-harm issues that stem from an impulse-control disorder”. And that’s just the beginning of it.

This brutally honest memoir took me on a emotional roller coaster ride. For most of it, I laughed at her foibles right along with her. But, for some of it, I cried for her pain.

Half really good and half really bad. But the good half was REALLY good!
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3.5 estrellas

Emm, Jenny Lawson es sumamente particular y ella lo sabe.

A raíz de la frustración por todo lo agotador y agobiante que es tener que lidiar con enfermedades mentales, Lawson creó el movimiento #furiouslyhappy para reclamar y aprovechar al máximo cada efímero y bien ganado momento de felicidad de su vida.

La autora padece de artritis reumatoide, depresión, ansiedad, trastorno de personalidad evitativa y trastorno obsesivo-compulsivo. Pero no hay que dejarse engañar, porque todo esto no le impide hacer todo tipo de cosas como adquirir animales disecados y tratarlos como mascotas, aventurarse en países como Australia o viajar constantemente para dar conferencias sobre sus best sellers (y de paso tener historias de gente rara en los aeropuertos) y, además, criar a su hija.

Para mí es difícil imaginar hasta las más pequeñas ansiedades de la autora, sin embargo, aprendí al leer de sus lugares seguros, sus paseos descalza en la nieve y, sobre todo, las batallas que le ha ganado a su propio cerebro. La aceptación propia y el rodearse de seres queridos son vitales; como también lo es convertirse en ese apoyo para alguien más.

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3.5 stars
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While I enjoyed Lawson's first book, I wasn't as ga-ga over it as others, so I read this one with some trepidation. Trepidation completely unwarranted: I loved this book. She is so funny and yet so able to capture what it feels like to be depressed. The only problem with this book is you finish it feeling like Lawson is your total best friend, except that you don't actually know her in real life. I want more! This was so fun and so illuminating to read.