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Ambitious New York City teenager Craig Gilner is determined to succeed at life - which means getting into the right high school to get into the right job. But once Craig aces his way into Manhattan's Executive Pre-Professional High School, the pressure becomes unbearable. He stops eating and sleeping until, one night, he nearly kills himself. Craig's suicidal episode gets him checked into a mental hospital, where his new neighbors include a transsexual sex addict, a girl who has scarred her own face with scissors, and the self-elected President Armelio. There, Craig is finally able to confront the sources of his anxiety. Ned Vizzini, who himself spent time in a psychiatric hospital, has created a remarkably moving tale about the sometimes unexpected road to happiness.

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Kniha: It's Kind of a Funny Story (Ned Vizzini). Hyperion, 2010

Kniha: The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky). Pocket Books, 2012

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it is not that kind of a funny story

Tento príspevok prezrádza dôležité momenty deja, preto je skrytý, aby sme Vám nepokazili pôžitok z čítania.
Well, I wouldn´t say it´s that funny to read this type of book. After reading The Perks of Being a Wallflower I wanted to dig deeper. And I found the victim of mine, although I have read a completely different story.
This book is partially an autobiography of Ned Vizzini. He spent 5 days in an adult psychiatric hospital. Struggles with anxiety and depression had committed suicide at the age of 32. His illness and pain are used in his books to help his readers. He reassures them, that it´s okay what they feel because he was on the same boat. Ned Zevini offers help and hope to those who are most likely to give up their life.
I wanted to introduce him a little bit because it explains his work as an author. He wrote several books about mental health, and struggles of accomplishing a balanced life even though he didn´t make it.
Let´s move on to the book. As I mentioned the story is situated in the psychiatric hospital in Brooklyn, New York. I started to read about Craig Gilner, who´s a year younger than me and he´s applying to high school. His goal is to get to Executive Pre-Professional High School. He believes that this school is the best and only way to have a successful life. His vision of life is to get into the best high school, and then the perfect college to get the right job. That´s the plan. The only catch is that he didn´t count with the pressure. Once he aces his way to the school of his dreams, the pressure becomes unbearable. The time for eating and sleeping is gone and he nearly killed himself.
That could be the sad end of the story. Luckily, there´s the last piece of Craig´s hope and logical thinking so he decides to call a suicide crisis phone line in the moment of an urgent need to kill himself. That evening he checks himself in the Sixth North Hospital. Nobody knows what he´s doing, not even his parents. It´s important to say, that he visits a therapist for some time. His problems include not eating and throwing up after every meal. The only activity he´s able to do is lying in his bed. But then the thoughts of guilt take their place in his mind. His score in school is 93, and not 98 as his classmates. That means he won´t be successfull. He doesn´t eat, which means he is disappointing his mom. He doesn't have time to play with his sister, so it takes the family apart. So many self-destroying thoughts in his head. Another problem is his friends. Craig´s best friend Aaron smokes pot, and Craig takes it as an opportunity to forget his Tentacles as he gave the name to things he is not able to handle and those things that drag him down. The opposite is Anchors. They make him feel enough and pleased.
Anyways all of this took him to the hospital. There he meets all kinds of people. His neighbors are a transexual sex addict, self-elected president Armelio, Muqtada who never walks out of his room and a girl who scarred her face with scissors. It may sound unbelievable and hard to heal in this type of healthcare institute. The opposite is true. Craig finds this place as a bubble where he can handle all his thoughts. And it is not as horrible as he expected it to be. Those „crazy“ people have their own story. He´s learning from their story and life experience. In 5 days happen a lot of things. Really. I don´t want to expose all of them, because that´s the funny part of the story. Important is that Craig eats again. He made some friends and Noelle, the girl with scars from scissors on her face got along with Craig so well that they planned to hang out someday. He sleeps well as well. He even found an Anchor here. As a small child, he used to draw maps. They were super cool, made out of his mind, really unique. But as he grew up, there wasn´t a space left for creativity. Thanks to Noelle he came back to his beloved and forgotten activity. Many people in the hospital like his work and support him. He feels good and confident. As the days pass by Craig feels ready to face the world again.
He did not forget why he came in here. He did not forget how he felt. That made him transfer to a different school. I think he realized that happiness is not based on the score in school or the amount of done homework in one specific evening. And he knows that the school won´t stop just for him. Yeah, and after 5 days your depression won´t disappear right?
Somehow he´s ready to live. There is joy and excitement in the lines I am reading on the last pages. I´m a bit afraid if it goes like this. If it´s that easy to choose that you want to live.
I feel how the book is touching me. Craig is a teenager dealing with academic performance, navigating relationships with family and friends, romantic crushes and so on. But I also see this publication throwing a lifeline to those getting out of depression and to those who want to know how it feels.
Many times I understood Craig. No idea if it is because of the similar age or the things he was getting through. I don´t know. But it was a warm feeling that the hope exists. Even in the smallest cheerful moments.
„ I´m not better, you know. The weight hasn´t left my head. I feel how easily I could fall back into it, lie down and not eat, waste my time and curse wasting my time, look at my homework and freak out and go chill tp Aaron´s house, look at Nia and be jealous again, take the subway home and hope that it has an accident, go and get my bike and head to the Brooklyn Bridge. All of this is still there. The only thing is, it´s not an option now. It´s just ... a possibility like it´s the possibility that I could turn to dust in the next instant and be disseminated throughout the universe as an omniscient consciousness. It´s not a very likely possibility“.
That is what Craig said on page 441, just 3 pages before the end. So I want to believe he´s alright and happy. He figured it out because no one deserves to pass away early or to live life without the moments of joy in it.

Ešte som ju nedokončila, prečítala som však viac než polku a doslova nechcem, aby to skončilo. Pre mňa zatiaľ naj kniha!

:)

Ak som nevidel film 6x tak ani raz. Veľká pomoc vždy, nie len pre teenagerov. Veľa príbehov Vas sprevádza v živote a dokážete si nájsť veľa paralel.

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