Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms,… (edició 2013)

Ecco la cosa più avvilente della depressione. Non sempre è qualcosa contro cui puoi lottare armandoti di speranza. Non è nemmeno una cosa, non è niente. E non puoi batterti contro il niente. Non è qualcosa che puoi riempire. Non è qualcosa che puoi coprire. C’è e basta, e nulla ha più senso. E di conseguenza tutti gli incitamenti a essere ottimista e ad agire cominciano a sembrarti totalmente folli di fronte alla reale portata del problema.
È come avere in mano una manciata di pesci morti, ma nessuno intorno a te vuole ammettere che quei pesci sono morti. E tutti si offrono di aiutarti a cercare i pesci o a scoprire perché sono spariti ( )

Episodes from Allie Brosh's blog (which I've never read) became this wonderful graphic comic/memoir about what makes her her. I love her humorous take on often very unhumorous mental states such as depression, OCD, spiraling and just dealing with people. I love her 'fish-out-of water' graphic representation of herself and her funny portrayal of her dogs and their thoughts. Highly recommended. ( )

Nothing makes me feel better like depression-inspired stories and german tragedies ( )

I'm not sure what is more appealing about this book -- the fact that it's absolutely hilarious, or the author's painfully honest and forthright self-exploration. So forthright, actually, that instead of reading like a memoir, it comes across as more of a contemplation of the ugly-but-unavoidable parts of the human condition. Or at least it did for me, anyway. It's nice to know that there's at least one more person in the world for which all the convoluted self-deception exercises are true. It feels a little like she is me, except for the dogs. And the dogs kept making me laugh uncontrollably on the bus, so there's that.

two favorite things:

But... never bees?
No. You should never eat bees. (such wisdom!)

and

I totally also have the participant ribbon in the not-throwing-sand-and-not-shoving-people competition. It is HARD. Pushing people is satisfying.

Yaar, read it already, it's flipping phenomenal. And the little tyrannosaurus arms are awesome. ( )

Brosh is so very much my kind of weird. I laughed in some places until I was sob-laugh-wheezing. But then also? Her description of what depression can be like is just...amazing. So, so good. Important and hilarious and extremely relatable (for me, anyway). ( )