Introduction : I'm not good at being mental -- How I felt about mental illness before I went mental -- Reaching out for help a.k.a. A fucking nightmare -- Trying to make the shit stop -- Safety in numbness -- Quietly freaking out -- Trauma, trauma, trauma -- Good will hunting your therapist -- Medication, medication, medication -- Side effects : label vs. life -- Your friend's quick and easy cures -- Medication vacations -- All-natural depression face masks -- Lights, camera, depression -- You can be either mentally ill or an asshole or both -- Excuses, excuses, excuses -- The manic mirage -- "Hello, I'm mental? : Too much" -- You don't have to be crazy to work here -- What's it like to date a mentally ill person? -- Love in the time of wanting to kill yourself -- A meeting with my mental illnesses -- Small things I do when I want to die -- Being ok in the grey -- Whatever gets you through the life

"Award-winning Asian British comedy writer Amanda Rosenberg presents an intimate memoir of confessional essays about the hilarious, inappropriate, and often difficult side to being mental"--