“My mental illness is not your mental illness. She doesn’t make any claims to be an expert in the field of mental health and fully recognizes how unique mental illness is. She talks about her experiences and how difficult it can be to even get out of bed while in the depths of a depressive episode. This includes therapy, medication, and a number of self-care and self-preservation tactics she’s fine-tuned over the years. In this book she shares how on the hard days how difficult it can be to manage her mental illness and the things she does to manage them. Lawson is completely unfiltered and is as open with her struggles as she is with the various adventures she’s found herself on. In chapters titled things like “How Many Carbs Are in a Foot?” “Cat Lamination” and “Well at Least Your Nipples Are Covered” Lawson explores some of the different ways her mental illnesses has colored her life.

― Jenny Lawson, Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Thingsĭespite this radical approach, Lawson still struggles through the hard days, but with it she is able to keep in the back of her mind that better times are ahead, which is so important. It’s a way to take back some of the joy that’s robbed from you when you’re crazy.” It’s not a cure for mental illness … it’s a weapon, designed to counter it. The title comes from an idea that came to Lawson as a way to combat the dark days and reclaim some of the good things in life that depression and anxiety often take from people. While Lawson’s first book Let’s Pretend This Never Happened focuses on her upbringing and early life, Furiously Happy is primarily centered around Lawson’s experience with mental illness and the various ways it has impacted her life.

She has an affinity for taxidermy, dressing in costume, and finding humor in every situation. Jenny Lawson lives in Texas with her husband Victor, their daughter, and their pets Dorothy Barker, Ferris Mewler, and Hunter S. Keep reading my full review of Furiously Happy to hear more about what the movement is all about, and why this is one of the most insightful and entertaining books in print. That’s because she’s also someone who struggles with depression, anxiety, and a number of other mental disorders, which she candidly discusses in this book. She tackles quite a lot, and by standard measures does it all very well, though if you asked her, she may not feel like a success. She is a successful blogger at The Bloggess, a best-selling author, a mother, an artist, and a small business owner. Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things is the second memoir by Jenny Lawson.

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