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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
Depression
Starts
Slow

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Of course I wasn't abused. If I were things would be so simple. I'd have a reason to for being in a shrinks office. I'd have a justification and something to work on. The world wasn't going to give me something that tidy.
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One thing I've learnt recently: how to think nothing. Here's the trick: don't have any interest in the world around you, don't have any hope for the future, and be warm.
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You all right, man?' This should be my name. I could be like a super hero: You All Right Man. Ah...' I stumble. Don't bug Craig,' Ronny is like. 'He's in the Craig zone. He's Craig-ing out.
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They're sort of ancillary anyway, friends. I mean, they're important -- everybody knows that the TV tells you so -- but they come and go. You lose one friend, you pick up another.
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Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.
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Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there's so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it.
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If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away
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It’s tough to get out of bed I know that myself. You can lie there for an hour and a half without thinking anything, just worrying about what the day holds and knowing that you won’t be able to deal with it.
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Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.
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I'm going to be here until I'm cured? Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner. Life is managed.
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I've started to think it must just be chemistry, in which case we're looking for the Shift and we haven't found it yet.
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I've had good moments scattered since then, times when I thought I was better, but that was the last day I felt triumphant.
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The Shift is coming. The Shift has to be coming. Because if you keep living like this you'll die.
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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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Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.
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I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?
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See, when you mess something up, you learn for the next time. It's when people compliment you that you're in trouble. That means they expect you to keep it up.
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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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