Reddit mentions of Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir

For anyone suffering from depression or mental illness, please know that there is absolutely help out there. Yes, maybe you have tried a lot of medications before, but maybe you’re new to this battle and need a little bit of help. Here are some things that have helped me:

-Friends and family
-seeing my doctor and being open with them about my feelings
-Reading (I’ll link some wonderful books down below).
-Being outside. Whether you’re walking, running, gardening or whatever. Being outside especially during a sunny day is wonderful.
-podcasts: The Hilarious World of Depression is a great podcast to listen to.
-meditation
-Believing in and being consistent with my medication.
-decent diet
-getting enough sleep

Here are some amazing books that have helped me:

Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250077028/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_F6kZAbDERXVNH

Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir https://www.amazon.com/dp/0425261018/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_86kZAb5RJPPGJ

You Are Here: An Owner's Manual for Dangerous Minds https://www.amazon.com/dp/125011988X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_o7kZAb6QVETZH

Here is a link to the authors blog: http://thebloggess.com

Theres a lot of self help involved in mental illness. That’s the only way we survive. We can’t expect someone to be able to fix us. We can only try to understand and be kind to ourselves and know most importantly that depression lies and deceives us.

“Without the dark there isn’t light. Without the pain there is no relief. And I remind myself that I’m lucky to be able to feel such great sorrow, and also such great happiness. I can grab on to each moment of joy and live in those moments because I have seen the bright contrast from dark to light and back again. I am privileged to be able to recognize that the sound of laughter is a blessing and a song, and to realize that the bright hours spent with my family and friends are extraordinary treasures to be saved, because those same moments are a medicine, a balm. Those moments are a promise that life is worth fighting for, and that promise is what pulls me through when depression distorts reality and tries to convince me otherwise.”
Jenny Lawson, Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

“To all who walk the dark path, and to those who walk in the sunshine but hold out a hand in the darkness to travel beside us: Brighter days are coming. Clearer sight will arrive. And you will arrive too. No, it might not be forever. The bright moments might be for a few days at a time, but hold on for those days. Those days are worth the dark.”
Jenny Lawson, Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

I'm here to second Jenny Lawson's Let's Pretend This Never Happened - it's pretty much exactly what you asked for with real life stories and good laughs.

I don't have an e-reader, but whatever you do, do not read Jenny Lawson's Let's pretend this never happened on a plane. I did this on the way to TX and was laughing so hard that I was crying and everyone was looking at me like WTF could possibly be so funny during all this turbulence?

We will welcome you into the book club with open arms upon your return! Have a fun and safe trip!!

They are! Even on the Amazon so you don't have to have any human interaction: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0425261018/ref=pd_aw_fbt_14_img_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=1VC23PF96PEX82RZKW6E
And http://www.amazon.com/Furiously-Happy-Funny-Horrible-Things/dp/1250077001
For Allie Brosh: http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2011/10/adventures-in-depression.html?m=1
You're not alone. That little voice is a liar. Depression lies. (((Hugs)))

There are a few writers I've read that I find write really well on what it's like being a woman. Their stories just resonate with me because most of the time they're things I've had happen to me or someone I know. They tell these succinct stories in a way that makes my ribs hurt from laughing so hard but there are a few that make me sob as well because you can tell these are real women writing about real life. They're not perfect, they fuck up, and they do stupid things. I'd say that they mostly write about their 20s and 30s but all of them, particularly Laurie Notaro, tell stories of their childhood and teenage years.


Jenny Lawson

1. Let's Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir)
   
2. The Bloggess
   
   Laurie Notaro
   
   
3. I Love Everybody (and Other Atrocious Lies): True Tales of a Loudmouth Girl
   
4. It Looked Different on the Model: Epic Tales of Impending Shame and Infamy
   
5. The Idiot Girl's Action Adventure Club: True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Life
   
6. The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death: Reflections on Revenge, Germophobia, and Laser Hair Removal
   
7. We Thought You Would Be Prettier: True Tales of the Dorkiest Girl Alive
   
8. Autobiography of a Fat Bride: True Tales of a Pretend Adulthood
   
   Susan Jane Gilman
   
   
9. Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress
   
10. Kiss My Tiara
    
    tl;dr - I've read a LOT of humorous memoirs written by women.
    

Have you read Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson? It's made up of short stories/essays and it's so funny.

More humor than weird Let’s Pretend This Never Happened .

I understand why you're bummed out about it. Just don't add it to the list of things you "should" feel bad about. I know I did, but just read what you want to read; if you don't want to read for a bit, that's ok. Hyperbole and a half and The Bloggess' blogs are good (both also have books, although I've only read The Bloggess' Lets Pretend This Never Happened); always makes me feel better that seemingly nice, cool writers have felt the same. Hang in there until you feel better.

Edit: punctuation. Also, don't feel bad. For a long time I wouldn't read anything which didn't definitely have a happy ending (couldn't deal with more sad).
Edit 2 - over correction of words...

By a comedian: Let's pretend that never happened by Jenny Lawson, or Dear Fatty by Dawn French. One is sincere and sweet and feel-good; the other is dangerous to read in public.

Obscure non-fiction: Round Ireland with a Fridge by Tony Hawks. The book to give as a gift if you're not sure what someone else enjoys reading.

Chick-lit: Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner. Over ten years old now, but a funny, sweet, girly novel. Happy ending, or course.

Sorry to hear about your loss. The last book I read was this one.