Improved Response

Ned Vizzini made a powerful book about depression and drugs and how it can affect us. In It's Kind of A Funny Story. It showed many people what can happen if you go the wrong direction and how lucky I am to be fine. I never knew how many people are depressed and how many lost their ways by taking drugs. It taught me everything you fought for and dreamed of doing, you will lose it by going the wrong way. Everything you prepared for is shattered and you go into a different world of being alone and lost. They have no job, no money, but all they have is an addiction or a problem.

Craig had everything he wanted. Friends, a home, and being in the top high schools of the nation. Everything he did he thought was because he was lucky. He studied the whole year and then he gave up on it. His friend Aaron made him do drugs. He was losing focus on school. He was very busy with homework that he had no time to relax. He couldn't handle it anymore. He was afraid if he told someone he was depressed and taking medication, people would think he is crazy. He was starting to feel alone. Never in my life have I felt that way before. I would sometimes think it, but never that lost nor alone.

When he was in the hospital, he met different types of people. People who cut themselves, did drugs, homeless people. It made him look like he was normal compared to the other patients. When Smity told Craig about his best friend Humble, Smitty said" He takes a lot of medication. Zorloft, vaccines you name it he takes it." It showed Craig that even how normal people might seem, you don't know their story. He liked Nia and found out she is depressed too. Craig wanted to do something to help them and show them the right direction. He wants to be on the right track, not going to the bad one.

Though Craig wanted to be with someone who is like him, he still thanks someone he doesn't know to not be "bad" or "messed up." All he wants is to live his life and not waste his life studying. Some don't realize people aren't as "normal" as they seem. They sometimes have to thank themselves for not being in the wrong direction. This is what it taught me.