Possibly the best description of OCD I have ever read in my life. It was like someone reached into my mind and put it in words. It was also REALLY interesting to read someone who has a different cocktail of mental illness with some of the same overlapping ones and seeing how different factors and symptoms and thought processes overlap. It made me feel not alone. 

I think that the title is interesting - 'A Happy Life with a Mixed Up Mind' - it adds to the way that throughout the book she continues to emphasise that at some points, she *was* happy, and through some of her darkest days, there were good things, and that there have always been things to pull her through, and parts of her life that she loved and took great joy in - Star Wars, Take That, her sister, Journalism. And that's the way that it is with mental health a lot of the time - the world can feel bleak and alone and hopeless but still, there might be good things and things that bring you joy, that don't necessarily negate the bad, but still matter.