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Everything is Ok is a nice graphic novel memoir that follows the author's journey of struggling with mental illness, being diagnosed, and learning to live with it and accept it rather than hiding it or trying to ‘get better’. I thought it served its purpose of talking about that experience well, but it didn’t go any further and felt like a very surface level look at it. I feel that this would be great for younger audiences or people who are just beginning to struggle or look for help with their mental illness. However, as someone who has been living their life with a mental illness and was diagnosed many years ago, I felt that I didn’t gain anything from it. It didn’t really teach me much that I haven’t already heard before. There’s nothing really wrong with that, I just think that it’s not for me, but would maybe help other people, specifically someone who may have just been diagnosed and is struggling to accept that. The art I felt did the job, the blues really fit the subject matter, but for the most part didn’t really stand out to me. There were a few pages where the watercolour art style was really utilized and as a result were really beautiful and eye-catching. One of the main parts of the medium of graphic novels is the art, but unfortunately I didn’t find it to be very interesting in this. It wasn’t bad, however, especially considering some pages were really great, it just didn’t feel super creative or interesting. I wouldn’t really recommend this except in very specific situations, such as if someone I knew was just diagnosed with depression, then maybe this would help them with that experience. Overall I gave this a 3.25 stars.