Given her honest writing about her ongoing depression, her taking time off was understandable. This tweet from 2014 was her last one, and an appearance at JoCo Cruise in 2016 was her last public appearance. While the book was a bestseller and Brosh made several public appearances, including Guest of Honor at Comic-Con in 2015, she kept a low profile and soon dropped out of sight. The mental illness she describes is profoundly isolating: ‘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.’ It must be empowering for those who have struggled with depression to read this book, see themselves, and know they’re far from alone.” Of it noted NON millennial Bill Gates wrote “I suspect that anyone who has experienced depression would get a lot out of reading this book. The awkward Paintbrush drawings resonated with late millennial/Gen Z readers dealing with their own anxieties and depression. The series started as a blog and gained a huge following, and the book was another success. When it was released in 2013 Allie Brosh’s Hyperbole and a Halfwas an instant and huge hit – collecting her stream of consciousness sort of webcomics, sort of essays about acute social anxiety and family issues.
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