I'll get up and bike to the Brooklyn Bridge and throw myself off it.
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 ha...
I ask the nurse wrapping up her dispensing duties if I need any meds, and she says I'm not scheduled for any. I ask her if I can have some. She asks what I need them for. I tell her, to deal with this...
But it suddenly makes sense: I’d like to be under the sea, as an octopus.
Never touching, never talking, just smiling and keeping our eyes locked.
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. The party line is that some of the most...
Then I get up and turn on the light. (Did anyone notice I was in here in the dark? Did they see the lack of light under the crack and notice it like a roach? Did Nia see?) Then I look in the mirror. I...
So when I ran out of the final bottle of Zoloft, I didn’t take any more. I didn’t call Dr. Barney either. I just threw the bottle away and said Okay, if I ever feel bad again, I’ll remember how good I...
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.
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.
My one friend is a screwup—a genius blessed with the most beautiful girl in the world, and he doesn’t even know it.
Just thoughts of what I have to do. Homework. And it comes up to my brain and I look at it and think I'm not going to be able to do that and then it cycles back down and the next one comes up. And the...
I'm still a nobody. When am I going to not be a nobody?
I smile to myself. I have a secret: I wish I was Dumbo the Octopus.
I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.
How could I ask for horse with a straight face? And, if I were doing heroin, then I’d be a depressed teenager on heroin. I didn’t need to be that cliché.
A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. It's the nonworking brains that get blocked, that have dead ends, that are under construc...
You have a chemical imbalance, that is all. If you were a diabetic, would you be ashamed
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.
Travel. Fly. Swim. Meet. Love. Dance. Win. Smile. Laugh. Hold. Walk. Skip. Ski. Sled. Play basketball. Run. Run. Run. Run home. Run home and enjoy. Enjoy. Take these verbs and enjoy them.