In 2013, Allie Brosh was the darling of the mental health community, on the strength of her best-selling book, “Hyperbole and a Half,” and her blog of the same name.
Then, she disappeared for seven years. This year, she finally resurfaced with a new book, “Solutions and Other Problems.” “Hyperbole” was such a success because of the humor it contained, as well as the unflinching look at clinical depression.
It was instantly relatable to those of us who had been through it too: “I could no longer rely on genuine emotion to generate facial expressions, and when you have to spend every social interaction consciously manipulating your face into shapes that are only approximately the right ones, alienating people is inevitable.” Sometimes humor
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