![]() ![]() Right?” And then there was the gem about dealing with medication side effects “which can include ‘feeling excessively stabby’ when coupled with some asshole telling you that ‘your medication not working is just proof you don’t really need medication at all.'” She sarcastically observed that if someone’s cancer returned, “it’s probably just a reaction to too much gluten or not praying correctly. She challenges some of the stigma around mental illness and its treatment. ![]() When she talked about being bewildered by a Japanese computerized toilet, I wanted to shout me too soul-sister! about female clothes not having pockets, and a pocketbook being neither pocket nor book. ![]() This includes Rory, the scary as hell taxidermied raccoon on the front cover. The book is jam-packed with all kinds of critters, ranging from living to taxidermied to costumes. Some chapters talk specifically about mental illness, but the majority are funny anecdotes. In Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things, Jenny Lawson uses “furiously happy” as a weapon to counter mental illness, and intends to “destroy the goddamn universe with my irrational joy and I will spew forth pictures of clumsy kittens and baby puppies adopted by raccoons and MOTHERFUCKING NEWBORN LLAMAS DIPPED IN GLITTER AND THE BLOOD OF SEXY VAMPIRES.” This is my kind of gal, someone who doesn’t let depression stop her from embracing her quirkiness and finding humour in the world around her. ![]()
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