IN THE PROGRAM, patients keep journals, and Nic shares an entry with us: “How the hell did I get here? It doesn’t seem that long ago that I was on the goddamn water-polo team. I was an editor of the school newspaper, acting in the spring play, obsessing about which girls I liked, talking Marx and Dostoyevsky with my classmates. The kids in my class are in college. This isn’t so much sad as baffling. At the time it all seemed so positive and harmless.”
