I envy Mr. Van Winkle

Have you ever got (gotten?) to a point in your life where it just hurts too much, emotionally speaking, to be...conscious? Where you just want to slip into inky black numbness until you forget about everything troubling you, but you can't even fall asleep because of the things you can't get out of your head?

I'm there. I hate it.

Rip Van Winkle had the right idea, I think.