Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
Ratings133
Average rating4.1
oof. description fails to do it justice. one of the most visceral accounts of anxiety and depression i have read.
She’s just like me fr except exceptionally mentally ill <3
Fruit IS magical!! I literally thought that the day I read that line!!!!
I felt so seen, the way her brain works is so well described
(the suicidal episode in particular)
but the very last sentences left me perplexed, being mentally ill isn't a mindset but a disease and you can recover only thanks too therapy :)
This is a pretty accurate depiction of someone with anxiety & depression. I loved the layout of the book, how chaotic each section feels. I related to the character a lot considering I have the same diagnoses/similar experiences.
I think Gilda being queer / a lesbian really adds depth to her depression as well.
I loved this one. As someone who's struggled with their mental health, I feel seen.
kinda fell apart after the 60% mark but the ending was good again. i wanna be her friend so bad
this was, like, major. and (tmi) so much of the narrative - its style, written with so much care - had me thinking back to the peak of my own manic phase
I listened to this book. I was hard to listen to so many swirling anxious thoughts all the time, but also I get it. It's probably hard to listen to because I have thoughts like this.
I hated all the times Gilda chose to lie to protect herself or her situation, but I also get it.
I hated all the times she struggled to do any small, simple thing, but I get it. At the end, when she is able to do so. many. things. (make her bed! brush and floss her teeth! cut up an apple! rinse her dishes and put them away!) it is mind-boggling to imagine struggling that much but also Doing That Much. (I'm sure you can tell I've struggled with anxiety and depression, by this point.)
Throughout this book, I've wanted to stop reading it a number of times because I was tired of her self-sabotage. That's why making toast and laughing with Eleanor would have been a really happy happy ending. But Mittens was the icing on the cake.
“What the fuck? You're alive!” Indeed.
3,5 ⭐️
I really liked the narrator's perspective on things at first.
By the end, I was a little disappointed we did not see a netter character arc, I would have loved more than two pages of redemption actions.
realistic, in a way that extends to the beauty of healing and hope. helped me get out of my head.
This grabbed my attention at the beginning because of the light and quirky way Austin is able to talk about heavy mental health topics. By the end, it kind of became monotonous though. I kept reading because I wanted to find out how Grace died.. the revelation was pretty sudden at the end of the story. The pacing was pretty off the whole story and made it hard to stay engaged after about halfway through.
the girls who get it, get it. the girls who don't probably don't need a therapist
I don't really owe anyone anything. I am an animal, brought into existence without my consent, left scrounging to get by.
This is a dark little novel about depression and anxiety and the things they push us to do. Gilda is already halfway to a breakdown when she's in a ‘minor car accident' that leaves her with a broken arm and a destroyed car. She's given an ad for therapy, which leads her to a Catholic church, which leads her to a job where she has to hide the fact that she's a lesbian. While Gilda was pushed to extremes here, I found myself relating strongly to her character. Avoidance as a result of extreme anxiety can lead us to do a lot of ‘weird' things and I understood where she was coming from, even as I knew her actions were in no way sustainable.
I really enjoyed reading this, as much as someone can ‘enjoy' something so anxiety-inducing. Austin is able to convey the difficulties of mental illness so well and is a fantastic writer who I look forward to reading more by.
amazing description of someone suffering from an anxiety disorder and what it's like to be queer and surrounded by catholicism — alexa, play nothing new by taylor swift featuring phoebe bridgers.
my god i have never read a book before that made me feel like my brain had been turned inside out and splattered all over the pages. this was really hard to read at times because of how real it is, how real the depiction of hypochondria is and the dread of realizing how small we are in the grand scheme of things and how alone all of that makes you feel. but there's also a lot of heart in this book and it's as full of life as much as it is full of talk of death. i am speechless
Dryly funny & sweet, but also... don't read this unless you're ready to be sad hahaha
I absolutely loved this book, but it wouldn't be for everyone. It's dark, depressing, and has a lot of but also hopeful. I related to the main character so much and saw so many of my anxious thoughts in her head.
It was also written in a very interesting way. Short speedy segments mixed in with longer chapters. The pace was perfect for me and I finished it very quickly. I'd love to see more of our heroine.
4.25 stars How could anyone think I could kill someone? I can't even kill myself.
With a title like that I expected the main character to be more of a cynic but I've been reading it in the wrong tone. She isn't nihilistic about it she is deeply concerned, and thinks about it every waking hour. Reading from a pov that's so anxious, about quite literally everything is sometimes exhausting. In addition to that sometimes I just had to stop reading because Gilda would do something that made me physically cringe. Like when instead of telling the friend of an old woman that she has passed she starts pretending to be her dead friend via email, because she figures that's what will make her happier. Because we are stuck in her head it almost makes sense why she does it. And of course she is constantly anxious about doing that too.
A lot of people seem to have found this to be depressing. Although the subject matter should be and for the characters IS depressing I found it mostly funny because of the absurdity of the situations. It ended on a more positive note than perhaps realistic, it's definitely hopeful too.