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ABSTRACTThis article will explain about how mental illness is being represented in Its Kind of a Funny Story, a young adult novel about depression. Through textual analysis, it is found that the novel treats depression as a serious medical illness and, by using Marcias identity statuses model, proposed an idea that depression may be caused by an undergoing adolescent identity formation. However, there are two limitations in this research: depression in non-white and/or underprivileged, as well as female characters, are not discussed. These limitations may serve as a research gap for future research.