Prologue

LET’S GET HAPPY

I’m starting over.

With this diary. With everything.

So welcome to it.

And if we’re going to be friends—and I know we are—then I might as well be completely straight with you. I mean, what kind of person lies in her own diary? There’s something I need to get out of the way before we get any further.

I started this diary as a patient at “Crazytown.” That’s what us locals call the psych ward at St. Augustine Community Hospital in Portland, Oregon, where I went for a ten-day “observation period” not too long ago.