My Year of Rest and Relaxation

by Ottessa Moshfegh

“According to that book you’re holding, the death gene is passed from

Death gene

“People like your mother,” Dr. Tuttle replied, shaking her head, “give psychotropic medication a bad reputation.”

Comment from doctor about her mom

When I explained for the third time that both my parents had died, that my mother had killed herself,

3 times explained thag her parents dead to psyho

Occasionally, over the years, when I’d felt abandoned and scared and heard a voice in my mind say, “I want my mommy,” I took the note out and read it as a reminder of what she’d actually been like and how little she cared about me. It helped. Rejection, I have found, can be the only antidote to delusion.

Abonded by her mom

Sometimes friends are better than family, because you can say anything. Nobody gets mad. It’s a different kind of love. I’ll

Aboutfriends