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

Prozac Nation Paperback | Pages: 368 pages

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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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A book for all Seasons: book I can identify with"How can you hide from what never goes away?"-Heraclitus

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

this was the first book i read when i was given the diagnosis of "depression" and i immediately thought, "i am so not depressed!" the book is full of self-loathing and self-indulgence. elizabeth wurtzel is full of herself and attention getting. (and she blames the fact that everyone is depressed on broken homes. what about those of us with happily married parents?)i wanted to shake her and ask, "but why don't you feel guilty? why are you blaming everyone else? why are you making everyone watch

Haha, so many people hate her for being so self-absorbed and whiney and I agree, she is - but I love her for it. I think it's honest; it's a fair depiction of what a lot of people feel when they're depressed and I thought it was powerfully written. Maybe I need to read it again now that I'm older but I do remember loving it several years ago. I'd like to add that there's another review on this website that slams this book for being whiny and that Wurtzel should 'just get over it' because there's

Haha, so many people hate her for being so self-absorbed and whiney and I agree, she is - but I love her for it. I think it's honest; it's a fair depiction of what a lot of people feel when they're depressed and I thought it was powerfully written. Maybe I need to read it again now that I'm older but I do remember loving it several years ago. I'd like to add that there's another review on this website that slams this book for being whiny and that Wurtzel should 'just get over it' because there's

You skip school for a week and it took your so called friends four whole days to notice, and when they ask what is it you've been up to and you answer 'I am afraid to live and depression has landed its final hit. Somehow I can't get out of bed' there is a slight shrugh that reads: Oh, it's only depression. I thought it was somehow much serious.To understand that depression is not just a moment is the most crucial step to anyone who has never been through an illness as hideous as this one. If you

Not as awful as some have claimed, but decidedly shallow and self-indulgent. By no means is someone obligated to be insightful about their life, to have learned something, or even to be interesting. No one is obligated to do anything in a memoir but tell their story the way they want it told.An unlikeable protagonist is a hard thing to stomach however, and try as I might I could muster no sympathy for Wurtzel. She whines, she blames her Jewish mother, she wallows, she emerges none-the-wiser. As