Sure, I'll join your cult a memoir of mental illness and the quest to belong anywhere
"From "weird, scary, ingenious" (The New York Times) stand-up comedian Maria Bamford, a brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfort of rigid belief systems-from Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People, to Suz...
| Main Author: | Bamford, Maria, 1970- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Gallery Books,
2023.
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| Edition: | First Gallery Books hardcover edition 2023. |
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Table of Contents:
- Sure, I'll join your cult
- Getting current: what life is like now
- Diagnos-yes!
- My first cult: my family
- Loose cannon (and high priest of hilarity)
- My sister: the funny (chosen) one
- The temple of thin!
- Suzuki violin
- Dale Carnegie (winning friends an influencing people!)
- Overeaters anonymous
- Showbiz! The cult! The artis's way!
- Debtors anonymous
- OCD CBT that is not free
- My ?th (who cares) cult: sex and love addiction anonymous
- The cult of success
- I killed God (and the circumstances leading up to a breakdown)
- The breakdown begins
- Hospitalization #1
- Hospitalization #2
- Hospitalization #3: certificate of completion
- Boundaries: I will not join just anything
- Bipolar acting job: Lady Dynamite
- My tenth cult: recovering couples anonymous
- Obligatory suicide disclaimer
- The twelve (silly) steps of (super stupid) twelve-step programs (my version, which is unapproved and apostate).