The intent of the book is meant to provide recipes that meet the need of the quote you shared—it just utilizes a form of black humor to share those recipes. It is genuinely something that can be helpful (I plan on using some of the recipes in the text) but the delivery of the recipes is interlaced with jokes about struggling with depression or a lack of motivation.

Just wanted to let you know that it's definitely not there to make fun of or belittle people like us who struggle—though it does utilize self-deprecating humor to give some flavor to the writing.