When you’ve been feeling down about life, what better book to read than a memoir from a certified crazy person.  Jenny Lawson is a professional blogger who suffers from rheumatoid arthritis, OCD, ADD, depression, and an anxiety disorder.  In Furiously Happy, she details her struggle in living with those disorders and her attempts to overcome them and live a somewhat normal life.

I’m not sure exactly what I was expecting from this book, but it certainly wasn’t what I got: an unflinching, if humorous, look at someone living with differing levels of mental illness.  I was not in the right frame of mind for such an exercise, though I don’t know when a good time would be.  If anything, it made me look deeper at my own situation and try to find a happy balance in my thoughts and feelings.