From the business ideas that she wants to pitch to Shark Tank to the reason why Jenny can never go back to the post office, Broken leaves nothing to the imagination in the most satisfying way. With people experiencing anxiety and depression now more than ever, Jenny humanizes what we all face in an all-too-real way, reassuring us that we’re not alone and making us laugh while doing it.

In Broken, Jenny brings readers along on her mental and physical health journey, offering heartbreaking and hilarious anecdotes along the way. Make sure you use the bathroom before you read “Awkwarding Brings Us Together”, a true test of your bladder control.From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Furiously Happy and Let ’ s Pretend This Never Happened comes a deeply relatable book filled with humor and honesty about depression and anxiety.Īs Jenny Lawson’s hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression.

Her candid and funny account of the treatment shows just how far a patient will go to seek relief from the relentless suffering of depression. The essay, “The Things We Do to Quiet the Monsters” gives a relatable, creative description of her depression, and the experimental treatment she experienced, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). The humor makes it all real, a human experience, and relatable for most readers, while maybe not personally suffering to that degree, can nevertheless relate and experience vicariously. The Open Letter chapter really breaks through, and moves the book toward what I expect from Lawson- honest reporting on the experience, feelings, and social effects of mental illness, sensitively delivered, with self-deprecating, devastating humor. While the previous book was probably the best book written to date to offer a personal perspective on life with anxiety, panic attacks, and social phobia- all while making the reader laugh out loud and relate and feel empathically sad, quite a feat- this book deals with serious depression. Then I read the chapter “An Open Letter to My Health Insurance Company”, and was blown away by her eloquent fury. The first 70 pages were a little sub-par for my Jenny Lawson expectations- having read and laughed out loud or commiserated with much of her previous book, Furiously Happy, I had lofty expectations, and felt a little let down.

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