The first time I read this book, it felt like Brosh had maybe been living inside my brain this entire time. The book covers a lot of ground, all of which makes me LOL so hard I cry, but it’s her chapters on depression that make me feel particularly seen. Allie Brosh recently reemerged into the world with Solutions and Other Problems, a new graphic memoir, but Hyperbole and a Half remains my number one. Just to remind you, this graphic memoir tackles tough topics with humor… and with drawings that are so hilariously bad (yet still so expressive), they’ve circled all the way around and attained awesomeness. I’ll get this one out of the way first, just because I already mentioned it in a recent post. Read on for a list of graphic novels and memoirs that tackle mental health. Even when they tackle topics that are heavy. Humor is a defense mechanism I lean into myself, so authors who dabble in dark humor around the topic of mental illness feel like kindred spirits.īut another type of mental health lit I enjoy comes in the form of graphic novels and memoirs.īecause when things feel heavy and I can’t handle another dense book about the general awfulness of the world (and I read these often because I write about sexuality for a living), comics have a lightness to them that helps keep me connected to my bookish ways. Those of you who read my list of books that are pure joy already know I enjoy titles that temper the darkness of depression with humor. As someone who’s been in and out of therapy since she was 20, playing fast and loose with her meds, dodging diagnoses like chronic depression, chronic anxiety, and bipolar disorder, I have a soft spot for books that make me feel seen in that way.
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