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Ritalin abuse is a big issue in the US.
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I am fortunate to have been well paid for an almost pathological honesty.
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Into every sunny life a little rain must fall.
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You know you've completely descended into madness when the matter of shampoo has ascended to philosophical heights.
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I am crying over the elusive nature of love.
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At long last, I had found myself vulnerable to the worst of New York City, because at 44 my life was not so different from the way it was at 24.
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Depression gave me extreme perspicacity; rather than skin, it was as if I had only thin gauze bandages to shield me from everything I saw.
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I am a hopeless, shameless flirt.
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One of the terrible fallacies of contemporary psychotherapy is that if people would just say how they felt, a lot of problems could be solved.
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Oh, Ma, you're looking at all the trees, and I'm not even in the forest.
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I was so scared to give up depression, fearing that somehow the worst part of me was actually all of me.
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I am not a nostalgic person.
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Sometimes, I get so consumed by depression that it is hard to believe that the whole world doesn't stop and suffer with me.
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I dont want to die, i dont want to live either.
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Everything's plastic, we're all going to die sooner or later, so what does it matter.
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There are some remarks that are so stupid that to be even vaguely aware of them is the intellectual equivalent of living next door to Chernobyl.
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I admire Bruce Springsteen because he's a heroic person who has lots of integrity and has this incredible body of work that is so vital.
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I am baffled by men. When they want me, I don't want them; when I want them, they don't want me.
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Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish.
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I don't think it matters how many parents you've got, as long as those who are around make their presence a good one.
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I'm not crying because you're mean. I just can't imagine how incredibly painful it must be to be you.
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If you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all.
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Happiness is a choice, you've got to work towards it
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Divorce has taught us how to sleep with friends, sleep with enemies, and then act like it's all perfectly normal in the morning.
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All I do is go to the movies.
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Sometimes I wish I could walk around with a HANDLE WITH CARE sign stuck to my forehead.
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The truth is that I'd always wanted to go to law school.
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It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.
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If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking
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It's like Samson and Delilah: watch your back, because trouble could be the person you're sleeping with.
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As someone very sagely said during the parricide trials of the Menendez Brothers: anytime your kids kill you, you are at least partly to blame.
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Occasionally I wished I could walk through a picture window and have the sharp, broken shards slash me to ribbons so I would finally look like I felt.
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But then I never had to worry about a crash landing because I never even took off.
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I need someone to shut off my brain, and turn on my heart.
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I don't know what to do if I am not inspiring some sort of false fascination.
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I know by now, only too well, that you can never get away from yourself because you never go away.
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You don't even have to hate to have a perfectly miserable time.
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Judaism will be enmeshed in pride and shame for as long as it endures. But to endure as a country, Israel must shun both these tendencies.
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I'd really like to write a book about Timothy McVeigh, but it would only work if he cooperated.
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I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on.
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My life's actually been quite dull; it's not all that glamorous.
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That's what it's like in my head all the time, constant snow, constant weather patterns of all sorts - blizzards, cyclones.
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That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.
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As soon as I was out in the street, I realized I didn't want to be alone after all, I realized I didn't want to be anything at all.
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I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong.
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Whether the emotion is true or truly wished for, anytime anything resembling love comes my way, it makes a fool of me. It
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I dont know if im running because i'm scared or if i'm scared because i'm running.
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What makes you think i'm so rich you can steal my heart and i won't feel a thing?
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Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it's the worst.
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Feminism is a good venue for getting yourself across as much as for getting your point across.
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And I want out of this life on drugs.
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You don't need an excuse to be depressed.
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If you already know what your response will be before you've heard what the other person has said, you are not listening.
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For all of my life I have needed more.
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If only my whole life could be words and music, if only everything else could slip away.
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Woke up this morning afraid I was gonna live.
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In my case, I was not frightened in the least bit at the thought that I might live because I was certain, quite certain, that I was already dead.
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I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.
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Bitch: In praise of difficult women.
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I wasn't just the madwoman in the atticI was the attic itself. The past was all over me, all under me, all inside me. — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent
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Sometimes someone will be standing in front of me, and already I feel him walking away. It's only a matter of time, so what's the point?
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In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.
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Everything's plastic, we're all gonna die.
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My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.
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All I want to talk about is the oncoming apocalypse in my brain.
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The voices in my head, which I used to think were just passing through, seem to have taken up residence.
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Good and bad are not opposites, they are both just different forms of intensity.
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I come from a family of screamers. If they are trying to express any emotion or idea beyond pass the salt, it comes in shrieks.
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Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.
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Israel fights back, which is very much at odds with the Jewish instinct to discuss and deconstruct everything until action itself seems senseless.
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He seemed a fool-everyone who didn't feel like me seems a fool.
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I am sick of the girl who cries 'wolf' all the time. Even though not one of those cries was ever a false alarm
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Belief is a good thing in principle, but an annoying thing in human beings.
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In the meantime, I could withdraw to my room, could hide and sleep as if I were dead
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My God, I could raise a family of six children and hold down a full-time job with all the energy I expend on depression!
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Years of depression have robbed me of that - well, that give, that elasticity that everyone else calls perspective.
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A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight!
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Okay so enough about me..now what do you think about me?
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They can give you all the pills on earth and do whatever - and you're still yourself.
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Banned! My eyes light up, I think I see stars. Anything that has been banned by anyone must be something I'd like.
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Very early in my life it was already too late.
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Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression.
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So many more cycles of elation of the first kiss, and devastation when it's over.
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Pass the pills and fancy plants/ Give us this day our daily trance.
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Time passes slowly, or too fast, or it makes no difference.
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