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Depression starts slow.

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Ned Vizzini
Age: 32 †
Born: 1981
Born: April 4
Died: 2013
Died: December 19
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Slow
Depression
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I was never big on rage.' 'Why?' It's so much more angry in my head than it could ever be outside.
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It's such a silly little thing, the heart.
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But some people have to get lucky just to live. And I never knew I could make anybody lucky.
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A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. It's the nonworking brains that get blocked, that have dead ends, that are under construction like mine.
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I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter.
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A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the Redwall books.
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And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.
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I'm jealous of her. Can you be jealous of your mom for being able to handle things? I couldn't take a day off, take a dog to the vet, and cook dinner. That's like three times too much stuff for me to get done in one day. How am I ever going to have my own house?
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It’s a huge thing, this Shift, just as big as I imagined. My brain doesn’t want to think anymore all of a sudden it wants to do.
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Nobody had told me I was common.
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You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?
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I know a lot of famous people didn't do well at school, like James Brown he dropped out in fifth grade to be an entertainer, I respect that... but that's not going to be me. I'm not going to be able to do anything but work as hard as possible all the time and compete with everyone I know all the time to make it.
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That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.
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That made me happy. That was my Anchor.
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