Reviews tagging 'Self harm'

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

42 reviews

booksoversecondbreakfast's review

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

5.0

An amazing, beautiful, weird book. So encouraging and funny. Filled with so much wisdom and relatable reflections of mental illness all interspersed chaotically between hilarious and weird anecdotes, and yet it's done so gracefully and meaningfully. I love this book so much and bought a copy for myself.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Chronic illness, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Animal death, Cancer, Self harm, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Drug use, Blood, Antisemitism, Cannibalism, Stalking, and Alcohol

dominic_t's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.5

I read this with my wife. She rated it 4 stars, and I rated it 3 stars, so I took the average of our ratings for this review.

"Sometimes I wonder if the best thing to do is just to be quiet and stop waving the banner of 'fucked up and proud of it,' but I don't think I'll put down this banner until someone takes it away from me. Because quitting might be easier, but it wouldn't be better." (p. 321).

I really appreciate how honest and vulnerable Jenny Lawson was in this book. I think it's really important to talk openly about mental illness, and she did a beautiful job of capturing what it's like to live with it. The book is also funny. Some of the chapters dragged on and felt a bit long.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Fatphobia

herperfume's review

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

julieb3a's review against another edition

1.5

Her writing sounds like my 8th grade stream of consciousness. Maybe I would have liked it more if I didn’t do the audiobook. Laughed twice, but most of the time it was a no for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Self harm

nuthatch's review against another edition

funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Self harm and Suicidal thoughts

senation1s's review against another edition

funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

5.0

Very funny and lighthearted way to look at depression and self-expression. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Minor: Self harm and Suicidal thoughts

madmadmaddymad's review

dark funny reflective slow-paced

5.0

A wacky and absurd book about suffering from depression.

My favorite part was the story about digging for her keys in the garbage can at the zoo, and then not knowing what she threw away when her husband came and told her he had her keys. Also, the story about visiting Australia. Easily the most chaotic road trip I’ve ever been on (and I wasn’t even there) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Mental illness, and Self harm

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Animal death

rafacolog's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

pipn_t's review against another edition

funny medium-paced

It took me a chapter or two to get into it, but I really enjoyed it once I got used to the style of the author.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

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

Minor: Animal death, Chronic illness, and Cursing