A review by imalwayswrite
Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So by Mark Vonnegut

2.0

I read an excerpt of this and loved it, and decided this was a must-read. Well…it was disappointing. Don’t get me wrong, Vonnegut’s a good writer; but I couldn’t figure out what this book was about. Being mentally ill and growing up in a family with a history of mental illness? Being mentally ill and overcoming the odds to reach the top of your field – in medicine, no less? Dual diagnosis? What? Some of the anecdotes didn’t have a point. I’m thinking specifically of the baby (Vonnegut is a pediatrician) who didn’t really need to be seen after all. Some of the others seem to be inside jokes, and the reader is definitely left out.