prescribed to fail — sample chapter
i almost died at twenty-two.
this is what i wish someone
had handed me first.
a free sample chapter from the book i'm writing about surviving the mental health system that was supposed to help me — and what actually pulled me out instead.
what's in the sample
the chapter that opens the book.
the prelude.
why i wrote this. who it's for. and the one line that took me twelve years to be able to say out loud — "i was almost one of them."
how to feel broken.
the math of self-hatred — 54,000 thoughts a day. the scandinavian upbringing that taught me to never say the true thing. the night my dad found the folder on the passenger seat.
the bridge.
the moment i was about to. and the moment something i still can't explain put my feet back on the concrete.
why this book exists
almost 50,000 americans died by suicide last year. i was almost one of them.
i did everything you're supposed to do. therapy. the hotline. the right school. the right friends. the right pills.
most of it didn't work. some of it made it worse.
this book is the long version of what actually pulled me out — and what it taught me about how broken the system around us really is.
i'm not writing it to sell you a framework. i'm writing it because at twenty-two i would have given anything to read it.
— adam moen, founder, resolv social
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this book is one person's story. it is not medical advice. if you are in acute distress, call or text 988 (suicide & crisis lifeline) before anything else. do not stop or change psychiatric medication without a prescriber.