My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety

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To access you ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. She addresses all these different aspects of her life with self-deprecatory humour balanced with emotionally charged moments. Soul-baring yet lighthearted, poignant yet written with a healthy dose of self-deprecation, My Mess Is a Bit of a Life is a tour through the carnival funhouse of Georgia’s life, from her anxiety-ridden early childhood where disaster loomed around every corner (When I was little I used to think that sheep were clouds that had fallen to earth. A truly funny passage can be read, read again and re-read and one can be guaranteed to throw up a guffaw each time.

I saw one review said that this was like bad standup, but for me, it was like I was going through her private Twitter where she was being silly and was oversharing about her life. Możliwe, że późniejsze teksty byłyby bardziej relatable (bo chyba tematycznie idą one z wiekiem autorki), no ale cóż - nie chce mi się tego sprawdzać. This book contains a series of vignettes depicting and inflating (no doubt) some of the most absurd elements of Pritchett’s life.Georgia has always had some anxiousness, even from a young age, some worries naturally more daunting than others. Pritchett perfectly skewers thoughts and people and events with such precision that it is just so relatable. As Pritchett becomes older and immersed in her career, the reader is treated to some lovely anecdotes about celebrities and working on high-profile comedy programmes.

This is something I didn’t think would be possible when I compare my life (pottering round in Cheshire) with hers (pottering round the White House with celebrities). Essentially, the book is written as Pritchett’s explanation to her psychiatrist about all the things she is anxious about. I had no idea who Georgia Pritchett was, but I quickly grew to like her through her very relatable musings in this unconventional memoir. This was at times funny and relatable, I can definitely see the comparison to Jenny Lawson, and the description that drew me in felt delivered on.

Oh, and a note to younger women, if you get on an elevator and your much older idol comes in to kiss and fondle you, and to your chagrin, he does it again the next night. Przy tym humor (bywa że ciemny i gorzki) umyka, trudno się utożsamić, nawet w całkiem bliższych tematycznie i "lękowo" anegdotach. There are some great running jokes – Bob Dylan’s every appearance made me snort with laughter – but there is also real warmth in the descriptions. one way of knowing you have crossed from girlhood to womanhood is that men stop furtively masturbating at you from bushes and start shouting things at you from cars. This memoir, told in gloriously comic vignettes, is an utterly joyful reflection on living – and sometimes thriving sometimes not – with anxiety.

Because everyone can sound morose, but not everyone can take the morose of your life and transform it into muppets of gluey laughter.

News from Nowhere will not obtain personal information from other organisations, and will not share, pass on or sell personal information that we hold about individuals to anyone else. But it’s more than just a few laughs; Pritchett is very frank and honest about the highs (working on Veep) and the lows (two young sons on the autism spectrum) of her life, all navigated while managing her own intense anxiety. Overall I am glad I read this and feel like it helped to see anxiety so clearly understood by someone else, as it helped me feel less alone in my anxiety. To Pritchett's credit she bypasses sounding too maudlin and steadily keeps the tone breezy and succinct, with her sharp essays or chapters usually only one or two pages in length. Pritchett is self-deprecating to the maximum – For example, I love the way she describes her shoulders as “Muppet Shoulders”.