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Title	:	Prozac Nation
Author	:	Elizabeth Wurtzel
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 368 pages
Published	:	October 1st 1995 by Riverhead Books (first published 1994)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Psychology. Health. Mental Health. Mental Illness. Biography. Biography Memoir

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A harrowing story of breakdowns, suicide attempts, drug therapy, and an eventual journey back to living, this poignant and often hilarious book gives voice to the high incidence of depression among America's youth. A collective cry for help from a generation who have come of age entrenched in the culture of divorce, economic instability, and AIDS, here is the intensely personal story of a young girl full of promise, whose mood swings have risen and fallen like the lines of a sad ballad.

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Original Title:	Prozac Nation
ISBN:	1573225126 (ISBN13: 9781573225120)
Edition Language:	English

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People hate on this book because Elizabeth Wurtzel is so whiny, ungrateful, etc - but she was writing a book on personal depression. Depression can be a black hole where there is nothing except not being able to crawl out of bed, no end in sight. You can't find the energy to shower, to talk, to care about anything. Chemical imbalances are the scientific terms for this, but when you suffer through it, there seems to be no rhyme or reason. You just don't care, or perhaps care too much and shut

"There was never enough money for anything..." Really? No money for anything but private schools, an apartment in the upper west side of NYC, summer camp for a month each summer, dance lessons, cruises, Betsy Johnson dresses, and private therapy five days a week. This book starts off as an insult to the truly poor and middle class. She then goes on to trivialize the depression of others. No one at Harvard has as black of days as she does and, later in the epilogue, the implication is that while

I have a hard time with this book, the same way I do with a lot of confessional memoirs. I have enormous sympathy for the condition she was/is in; I have a whole lot less for her generalizing her experiences. Others say that it's unfair to hold Wurtzel's attractiveness, her privileged background, her intelligence, and her lifestyle against her. Except she shoves it in our faces. The premise is that "This can happen to anyone!" What's disturbing is the little, tiny unsaid "(even someone like me)"

I think I missed something while reading this because people keep talking about what a great and brilliant writer Wurtzel is but I don't get it? Is it just the fact that she manages to make tons of allusions, actually not even allusions but explicit references to things that are supposed to be signifiers of someone with a college education like Kant or Marx? This legitimately reminded me of that joke about the New Yorker being for people whose identity revolves around being well read college

This book is some heavy reading. I want to say I enjoyed it but that just doesn't seem like the right word. Appreciated it is better I think. The way Elizabeth Wurtzel wrote this book makes it seem like she is just sitting beside you telling you her story. Her voice is an easy one to read. As someone who struggles with depression everyday I found myself relating a lot to how Wurtzel described herself feeling. I would recommend this book to people, especially young people, if you have depression.

Depression was the loneliness fucking thing on earth.Having battled with depression since I was 14 (10 years now), Ive found it very difficult to put into words my thought patterns and behaviours and almost impossible to find accurate representations. Wurtzel manages to put into words much of what Ive struggled with. A human can survive almost anything, as long as she sees an end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that its impossible to ever see the end.My copy of

I really can't grasp how anyone is capable of saying her description of depression was dramatic and self centered; Especially considering the disease it self is so self centered to begin with, to feel so alone, and to feel like no one understands is part of depression. I'm a college student, made most of the same mistakes she has, and was diagnosed with depression 5 years ago. I've read plenty of books on depression and I've never come across a book that so easily described my feelings. What