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And I want out of this life on drugs.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i’m always missing someone or someplace or something, i’m always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing.
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Always Long Missing Someone Trying
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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Children Energy Job
In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.
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Depression Literature Way
I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong.
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Feeling Nation Prozac Something Wrong
And I want out of this life on drugs.
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Drug Happen Life Out
My life’s actually been quite dull; it’s not all that glamorous.
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Actually Dull Glamorous Life
In the meantime, I could withdraw to my room, could hide and sleep as if I were dead
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Meantime Room Rooms Sleep
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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Imagination Passion People Surprise
But just as a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing, a little bit of energy, in the hands of someone hell-bent on suicide, is a very dangerous thing.
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Hand Someone Suicidal Suicide
I sit there in my bed staring at the wall, feeling happy, enjoying the way the wall looks, how pink and how white it is. Pink and white, as far as I’m concerned, have never looked quite so pink and white before.
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Enjoy Feeling Look Wall White
Oh, Ma, you’re looking at all the trees, and I’m not even in the forest.
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Forest Look Tree
That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.
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Depression Pain Purposeful Sad
And she keeps saying, how can you do this to me? And i want to scream, what do you mean, how can I do this to you? Aren’t we confusing our pronouns here? The question, really, is How could I do this to myself?
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Confusing Keep Mean Need
Am I worried people will say I’m repeating myself? Sure. One thought I had was to publish it as a novel but eventually I just decided to do what I wanted to do.
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Eventually Literature People Worry
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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Beyong Idea Salt Try
Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish.
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Alloe Instinct Side Try

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