“It feels like...” Sam trailed off. “I have this loud internal narrator who tells me that I’m a piece of shit, that I don’t deserve anything I have, that any day now the whole thing will come crashing down. It’s delusional, but I can’t stop it. And I have this sense of not being right in my skin. Like I don’t belong in this.” He tugged at his flank

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In the halfway house, the dominant emotion was fear. No one ever spoke of it, but fear pervaded every centimeter of that space. Everyone in the house had, in his or her own way, experienced the disintegration of their personality. Everyone had fallen a long way, fallen hard, and fallen alone. Everyone in that house had looked their own annihilation

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