It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini

It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini is a really good book about a teenage boy named Craig who suffers from clinical depression. He wants to commit suicide but he stops himself and checks himself into a hospital. He ends up in the adult psychiatric ward. This book has a lot of lessons that are both presented and supported in a good way. This book actually taught me some very important lessons about life. One of the lessons is that you shouldn’t try to live with a problem; you should try to solve it. Another one of the lessons is that you shouldn’t keep your feelings bottled up.

One of the lessons in It’s Kind of a Funny Story is that shouldn’t live with a problem; you should try to solve it. When Craig tried to live with his problem (his depression), it was awful. He threw up almost everything he ate, he could hardly sleep, and his grades were dropping rapidly.  When I first heard how Craig’s life was, I could actually kind of understand why he wanted to commit suicide. Craig just didn’t try to solve his problem, which was one of the reasons why he wanted to commit suicide. If he wasn’t depressed, he obviously would not have contemplated committing suicide. This lesson is presented when one of Craig’s friends, Nia, comes to visit Craig at the hospital. Nia says that she also has depression, and Craig suggested that she should get help for it, because he felt better when he got help for it. The lesson was supported when, at the end of the book, he isn’t depressed anymore. He got better because he tried to solve his problem by checking into the hospital and getting treated for his depression. In the end, his problem was solved, and he started living a much healthier and happier life.

Another one of the many lessons in It’s Kind of a Funny Story is that you shouldn’t keep all of your feelings bottled up. This lesson was presented when Craig told his parents about his depression and the fact that he wanted to kill himself. Craig’s parents said if he told them that he really wanted to kill himself, they could have done something about it. I, myself, did not understand why Craig did not tell his parents that he wanted to commit suicide, because you could tell that he didn’t want to keep feeling what he was feeling. This lesson was supported when Craig started telling people that he wanted to kill himself. Once the truth was out to the world, Craig actually started feeling better. He no longer had to hide the truth from other people. In the beginning of the book, he was trying hard to hide the fact that he was depressed from his friends. When Craig was hanging out with his friends and his friend asked him if he was okay, he shrugged them off. Doing this stressed Craig out, so when he didn’t have to hide anything, he felt less stressed. All in all, the lesson that you shouldn’t bottle up all of your feelings is presented and supported in this book.

In conclusion, It’s Kind of a Funny Story has a lot of good and important lessons. All the lessons in this book are presented and supported clearly. You can tell in this book what the author is trying to tell us: to not bottle up are feelings, and don’t try to live with a problem, try to solve it.