Analysis Of Ned Vizzini: It's Definitely A Sad Story

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Ned Vizzini: It’s Definitely a Sad Story
Ned Vizzini, full name Edison Price Vizzini, was born on April 4th, 1981. He was a white, American man. He was married Sabra Embury, with whom he had a son. Vizzini graduated from Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan in 1999, and also attended Hunter College in New York City. On December 19th, 2013, Vizzini ended his life by jumping off the roof of the building his parents lived, 39 Plaza Street West in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, New York. Vizzini was alone at the time and did not leave any note. The manner of death deemed suicide, the actual cause of death according to the autopsy was blunt impact injuries. At the time of his death, Vizzini was only thirty-two years old. Unfortunately, I was unable …show more content…

Vizzini was prescribed medication to deal with depression, which he admitted helped, when he took them. After his work “Be More Chill” was published, Vizzini checked himself into a psych ward of a hospital, wishing to get help with his depression, according to a close friend, Vizzini was there at, and ready, to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge before he decided to get help instead. Ned summarized his experience in the psych ward by saying “through individual and group counseling, medication management, therapeutic activities on the unit, sincere care from the people who worked there, and some very eye-opening conversations with my fellow patients, I made it.” As far as family history, I could find very little, but based on what we know about the heretics of depression, it’s very possible that in was something that ran in his family, generations before him …show more content…

He would urge students to recognize the disease and it’s warning signs. A quote from one his speeches, “There are so few things that can really kill you in this world, but one of those things is stress.” Vizzini was possibly prompted to do this because of the outpour of gratitude he received from young adults after It’s Kind of a Funny Story. Many told him that his book greatly helped them, or possibly saved their lives. A close friend notes that Ned didn't just want to help people, he had to, it was his simply his first

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