 Ros Johnson, a Pawtucket, Rhode Island-based clinical social worker said Brosh explains aspects which most people who have the illness cannot describe, "What she accesses and presents to other people is so clear and well-articulated, which is why it resonates".Amy Dobek of the University of Missouri–Kansas City Library says that "it's not so much the stories themselves that are side-splittingly funny – it's the combination of her histrionic storytelling style and her primitively mad skills with MSPaint that put her, if I may say, over the top.