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A review by frytha
Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain by Portia de Rossi
5.0
Speechlessly horrifying, thoroughly moving. A heartbreaking look at mental illness from a fragile mind in an image-obsessed industry.
I highly recommend Portia de Rossi's insightful, brutally honest and terribly brave biography about her long struggle with anorexia and bulimia.
This book has come under some critisism for being badly edited, focussing on her "crazy" and obsessive habits, and the spending a short and glossed over 30 pages on her recovery - stating that the recovery is the important part. I disagree. Although the recovery is, ultimately, the most important part for any sufferer - the purpose of this book was to hit the audience hard with the brutal truths of this illness, to educate anyone with family or friends who suffer from it, and perhaps to help the sufferer to realise that they are not alone, and what they are doing to themselves is not healthy, and ultimately fatal. And besides she was crazy. It is a MENTAL ILLNESS. What goes on in your head is NOT logical, it is what these people think about CONSTANTLY. So yes, the book "focussed on her crazy", because that was exactly what she was thinking about and feeling, ALL THE TIME.
Read it.
I highly recommend Portia de Rossi's insightful, brutally honest and terribly brave biography about her long struggle with anorexia and bulimia.
This book has come under some critisism for being badly edited, focussing on her "crazy" and obsessive habits, and the spending a short and glossed over 30 pages on her recovery - stating that the recovery is the important part. I disagree. Although the recovery is, ultimately, the most important part for any sufferer - the purpose of this book was to hit the audience hard with the brutal truths of this illness, to educate anyone with family or friends who suffer from it, and perhaps to help the sufferer to realise that they are not alone, and what they are doing to themselves is not healthy, and ultimately fatal. And besides she was crazy. It is a MENTAL ILLNESS. What goes on in your head is NOT logical, it is what these people think about CONSTANTLY. So yes, the book "focussed on her crazy", because that was exactly what she was thinking about and feeling, ALL THE TIME.
Read it.