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I'm going to be here until I'm cured? Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner. Life is managed.

Ned Vizzini

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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
Managed
Going
Life
Cured

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(...) Since I was a kid. Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.' Right.
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That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.
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I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.
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I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad.
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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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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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I'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.
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The Shift hasn't happened yet, maybe it never will, but sometimes-just enough times to give me hope-my brain jars back into where it's supposed to be.
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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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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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That made me happy. That was my Anchor.
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Time is a person-made concept.
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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 owe her everything and I love her and I tell her these days, although every time I say it, it gets a little diluted. I think you run out of I love yous.
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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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What am I always going to do? I'm going to go home and freak out.I'm going to sit with my family and try not to talk about myself and what's wrong. Im going to try and eat. Then I'm going to try and sleep. I dread it. 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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its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself
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Depression starts slow.
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You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?
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