Thats Mental, Amanda Rosenberg
Thats Mental, Amanda Rosenberg
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That's Mental
Painfully Funny Things That Drive Me Crazy about Being Mentally Ill

Author: Amanda Rosenberg

Narrator: Amanda Rosenberg

Unabridged: 5 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/06/2019

Synopsis

That’s Mental breaks down myths and misconceptions about what it means to be a millennial with mental illness in a darkly funny, but relatable way. In her new book, Rosenberg addresses the overlooked and offbeat issues of mental illness, shedding light on topics that are off limits, uncomfortable, or just downright embarrassing. This book details every challenging and awkward stage of Amanda’s journey with mental illness and how she manages what she calls her “garden variety crazy.”“I’m writing this book because it’s important, because people need a laugh, and because it’s the book I wish I’d read before I lost my entire mind,” explains Rosenberg. “It’s everything that drives me crazy about being crazy,” she says.Rosenberg hopes her book stands to be a voice for millenials, a generation who, for the most part, are overworked, underpaid, and yet broadly labeled as spoiled brats. This candid and deeply revealing look into mental illness is filled with confessional essays about the inappropriate, devastating, and strangely amusing side to being mentally ill.

About Amanda Rosenberg

Amanda Rosenberg is an Asian British comedy writer based in San Francisco. She writes about mental health, pop culture, and tech. She has been published in McSweeney’s, The Hairpin, GOOD, Anxy Magazine, Quartz, Huffington Post, Mighty, PopSugar, Thought Catalog, and the Slant. She has 30,000 subscribers to her Medium blog, which has garnered over well over a million views in the last five years. She is an editor for Slackjaw, a satirical online publication with 74,000 subscribers.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nursebookie

This book was absolutely brilliant and down right hilarious! As a nurse, my favorite rotation was in psychiatric and mental health. I have always felt a connection with my patients. This book was able to look at mental illness and gloriously shines a light to the stigmas. It helps us become more und......more

Goodreads review by Allison

Listen, I know I should be more articulate about this but IT'S JUST THE DAMN BEST. Amanda is hilarious and wickedly smart, even about the most personal and tricky of topics. Buy this book, read this book, then buy someone else this book, so they can read this book.......more

Goodreads review by Molly

Holy shit this book is funny and cathartic. Amanda Rosenberg does such a great job of being grittily transparent (there is no cure in this book) and really helpful and knowledgeable when talking about mental health. It's real, raw, and a really funny time.......more

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“Brutally honest and hilarious, That’s Mental is an informative read that will have you both laughing and crying.” Women.com

“[In] That’s Mental, gathers the dusty doom and darkest gloom of mental disorders she knows firsthand and blows them into the land of chuckles. Along the way, Rosenberg breaks down mental health myths and misconceptions with blistering honesty and brilliant empathy.” East Bay Monthly (California)

“Joking about mental illness is a tricky business, but Amanda Rosenberg manages to find humor in even the darkest of situations…That’s Mental is a timely, irreverent roller coaster of a memoir, and readers—with mental illness or without—are sure to enjoy the ride.” Shelf Awarness

“A gloriously hilarious book.” Medium

“For those of us with a diagnosis or two we’d rather not have, That’s Mental is like a hug from a friend you were too shy to confide in but understands anyway. Also that friend is funnier than you.” Maggie Tokuda-Hall, author of Also an Octopus

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