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Brain Sad

Harper is nineteen years old and has been diagnosed with the terminal illness Depression.
  1. Chapter One
    “Mental illness, of course, is not literally a 'thing' - or physical object - and hence it can 'exist' only in the same sort of way in which other theoretical concepts exist.” - Thomas Szasz
  2. Chapter Two
    “Nothing burns like the cold. But only for a while. Then it gets inside you and starts to fill you up, and after a while you don't have the strength to fight it.” - George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
  3. Chapter Three
    “My goal is to see that mental illness is treated like cancer.” - Jane Pauley
  4. Chapter Four
    “Depression is a physical illness.” - Terry Bradshaw
  5. Chapter Five
    “People cannot abide being around you when you are depressed.” - Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
  6. Chapter Six
    “I am the girl you see in the photograph from some party someplace or some picnic in the park, the one who is in fact soon to be gone. When you look at the picture again, I want to assure you, I will no longer be there.” - Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac N
  7. Chapter Seven
    “Don’t look forward to the day when you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.” - Tennessee Williams