She can communicate on a profound level about the toxic and pervasive thoughts that come with mental health problems.

Things that try to burrow into your mind like a bad seed… Things that will stop at nothing to pull you down further and kill you in the most terrible way of all… by your own trembling hand. “You will see things that no normal person will ever see. I share the excerpt here because it absolutely blew me away: She addresses “all who walk the dark path”. The following excerpt is from the end of the book, but I don’t think that sharing it will “ruin” the ending. She also doesn’t hold back when talking about depression, crippling anxiety and suicidal thoughts. My hat is off to you, my friend.īut enough about your braggy, powerful vagina. More power to you if you can keep a roll of nickels up there. I guess it depends on how strong your vaginal muscles are. But I do have a vagina and that’s sort of like a pocket, although not one you should store paper money in.

I would have said “pocket” but I don’t have a pocket in this dress. That girl in Amélie is so tiny I could fit her in my vagina. “Apparently the French are really into small food, which sort of makes sense because they’re very thin. I laughed at the following excerpt so much I almost choked: This is one of the ways in which the author straps us into the emotional rollercoaster of her world. At times we move quickly from a chapter recounting one of Lawson’s bizarre adventures to a poignant chapter detailing the dark depths of depression. It is also a wild and wacky ride through Lawson’s mind, dotted with plenty of hilarious anecdotes. It is an unabashed, brutally honest account of one woman’s struggles with mental health.

In an interview with The Washington Post, Lawson said: “This book is about my battle with mental illness, but, more importantly, it’s about celebrating the battles we win against life and b.s. I heard about Lawson’s Furiously Happy on another blog, though, and was sufficiently intrigued.

I don’t tend to read memoirs, nor do I gravitate towards humorous books. Nothing I can say in this review will match that perfect, succinct description. The subtitle of Jenny Lawson’s book Furiously Happy is: A Funny Book About Horrible Things.

Furiously happy chapters