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I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.

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
Feelings
Feel
Wasted
Feels
Useless
Kind
Awful
Broken
Dead
Feeling
Forget

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Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.
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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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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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But some people have to get lucky just to live. And I never knew I could make anybody lucky.
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She's pretty. (It's amazing how girls can say this and make it the most withering insult.)
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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'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?
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That's the number one thing I hear about humans. You have all these choices, so you're confused all the time, and you think so much that you're never happy.
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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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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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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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Do you even know who the enemy is? I think... it's me.
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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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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'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.
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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'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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