“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...”
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A humorous account of a New York City teenager's battle with depression and his time spent in a psychiatric hospital.
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Ned Vizzini
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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...”
“I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?”
“Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.”
“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 th...”
“We look into each other's eyes as we shake. His are still full of death and horror, but in them I see my face reflected, and inside my tiny eyes inside his, I think I see some hope.”
“It's such a silly little thing, the heart.”
“And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.”