This is How: Help for the Self by Augusten Burroughs

A blunt, profane self-help memoir offering "no-holds-barred" advice on topics such as suicide, addiction, eating disorders, abusive relationships, grief, terminal illness, and parenting a dying child.

This book contains: activism, alcohol/abuse, alternate gender/sexual ideologies, anxiety, body horror, body shaming, bullying, child abuse, controversial and inflammatory commentary, death/grief, deception, depression, derogatory terms, drugs, gore, hate speech, molestation, non-sexual nudity, oppession, parental neglect, pedophilia, physical assault, profanity, rape/sexual assault, self-harm, sexual content, smoking, suicide (explicit), toxic relationships and violence.