That made me happy. That was my Anchor.

I'm fine. Well, I'm not fine - I'm here." "Is there something wrong with that?" "Absolutely.

A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the Redwall books.

Depression starts slow.

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.

Is that the truth, Jimmy?" I ask without looking at him. "It's the truth and it come to ya!" I smile.

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 had the intention of saying.