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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.
Ned Vizzini
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Ned Vizzini
Age: 32 †
Born: 1981
Born: April 4
Died: 2013
Died: December 19
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Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.
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How would you know? Everything’s like sex. It’s the universal metaphor. To pick a lock, let me guess, you have to go slow at first, but then you have to pull off some fancy moves, and you have to stay concentrated, and you have to stick something in something, right?
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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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No, mom says, looking at me in the eyes. What's a triumph is that you woke up this morning and decided to LIVE. THAT'S a triumph. that's what you did today.
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Nobody had told me I was common.
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I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.
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I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?
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I don't- I shake my head. (...) What? What were you going to say? This is another trick of shrinks. They never let you stop in midthought. If you open your mouth, they want to know exactly what you had the intention of saying.
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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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That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.
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My brain was all right back then it didn't get stuck in ruts.
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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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Depression starts slow.
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its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself
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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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Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.
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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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That's what gets me through the day. Knowing that I could do it. That I'm strong enough to do it and I can get it done.
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I like you a lot. Because you’re funny and smart and because you seem to like me. I know that’s not a good reason, but I can’t help it if a girl likes me I tend to like her back [...] I like you for all this stuff but I also kind of like you for the cuts on your face—
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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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