This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More for Young and Old Alike is the eighth book by Augusten Burroughs.

[6][7] Burroughs advocates breaking the "addiction" of dwelling on one's past by focusing on the present and staying busy with physical activities.

[9] The Globe and Mail's Rosemary Counter describes the book as "equal parts self-help and anti-self-help, with a dash of memoir.

[11] Sims criticizes Burroughs for padding the book with one- or two-word paragraphs, pointing out ridiculously obvious facts such as 800-numbers being toll-free, and writing out a phone number in words rather than in numerals.

... Burroughs' treatment of edgy subjects are excellent, his wit and wisdom the implements with which to open your mind to new ways of thinking and living.