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“People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode.”
This is a book about a kid who thinks about killing himself but doesn't and how he deals with his life. Craig Gilner is a 15 year old who has spent the past year waiting for “The Shift” to take place. Up until a year ago he wasn’t an insomniac, could hold down more than four bites of food, didn’t break out in cold sweats, could finish his sentences, ...more
“People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode.”
This is a book about a kid who thinks about killing himself but doesn't and how he deals with his life. Craig Gilner is a 15 year old who has spent the past year waiting for “The Shift” to take place. Up until a year ago he wasn’t an insomniac, could hold down more than four bites of food, didn’t break out in cold sweats, could finish his sentences, ...more
Craig has worked really hard to get into one of the best school. But like most teenagers today, the pressure becomes too much and he finds himself slipping into depression, enough to want to kill himself. Thanks to the Suicide Helpline he manages to get help and checks himself voluntarily into the psychiatric ward. He meets people there from various walks of life and finds that he is not alone; there are people who are worse off. The crowd is mixed, but he manages to make friends amongst them. h
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