In praise of difficult women, and more, now, again. Prozac nation is a reflective, personal and raw account of elizabeth wurtzels battle with depression as a child, teenager, and an adult. The new york times wurtzel is a very entertaining nut case. New yorker elizabeth wurtzel writes with her finger on the faint pulse of an overdiagnosed generation whose ruling icons are kurt cobain. A harvard and yale law school graduate whose work has appeared in such publications as the new yorker, new york, the guardian, and the oxford american, she lives in new york city.
This memoir, both harrowing and hilarious, gives voice to the high incidence of depression especially among americas youth. Elizabeth wurtzel quotes author of prozac nation goodreads. The saddest, funniest, and ultimately, most triumphant book about youthful depression ive come across. Prozac nation from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia jump to navigation jump to search this article is about the book. Users who reposted an excerpt from prozac nation, written by elizabeth wurtzel, read by rm. Prozac nation is a collective cry for help, a generational status report on todays young people, who have come of age fully entrenched in. Prozac nation, her first book, published when she was 27, was unvarnished in its accounts of her student days at harvard, her drug use, her extensive sex life and more. In this famous memoir of her bouts with depression and skirmishes with drugs, prozac nation is a witty and. Prozac nation is an autobiographical account of elizabeth wurtzel, an adolescent growing up depressed in new york city. The book takes us from her early years, where the depression first reared its head and laid down its roots, up until the present day. The book describes the authors experiences with atypical depression, her own character failings and how she managed to live through particularly difficult periods while completing college and working as a writer. A powerful portrait of one girls journey through the purgatory of depression. A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. Prozac nation and major depression disorder prozac nation and major depression disorder raquel h.
Open library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. New york times abook that became a cultural touchstone. Prozac nation book chicago public library bibliocommons. Infobox book name prozac nation title orig translator image caption author elizabeth wurtzel illustrator cover artist country usa language english. Prozac nation book hennepin county library bibliocommons. Reading this book is like being locked up with her, covering your ears or laughing out loud. Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital. Prozac nation is a memoir by elizabeth wurtzel published in 1994. Your book was so real and so dark that i felt the pain of the cuts, thesadness in the alcohol and the paranoia, even among. In the books early pages she set out her stall, describing the creep of her illness, its deadly pull. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Elizabeth wurtzel, author of the memoir prozac nation, holds up a locket with the word prozac and poses for a 1991 portrait in front of a window display of a hand holding pills. Prozac nation gave me courage not to hurt myself, because i was notalone.
I read this book because a psychologist told me it would convince me psychiatric drugs such as prozac help people. Elizabeth wurtzel is the author of bestselling books including prozac nation,bitch. Prozac nation book johnson county library bibliocommons. Prozac nation book richmond public library bibliocommons. Prozac is a trade name for the antidepressant fluoxetine. Elizabeth wurtzel, the writer best known for her bestselling 1994 memoir prozac nation. At the age of 11, she carved up her legs with razor blades. A powerful portrait of one girls journey through the purgatory of depression and back. A sylvia plath with the ego of madonna, she quotes from her bad, depressing. Wrenching and comical, selfindulgent and selfaware, prozac nation possesses the raw candor of joan didions essays, the irritating emotional exhibitionism of sylvia plaths the bell jar, and the wry, dark humor of a bob dylan song. However, wurtzel tries the new medication, prozac, and eventually helps her manage her depression and anxiety. Young and depressed in america, has died at a hospital in manhattan after a long battle with cancer. New york times a book that became a cultural touchstone.
Users who like an excerpt from prozac nation, written by elizabeth wurtzel, read by rm. She is a harvard and yale law school graduate whose work has appeared in such publications as the new yorker,new york, the guardian, and the oxford american. This book is a fairly short 200 page, recent 2001 book that neatly summarizes many of the best arguments against biological psychiatry. Basically a period piece set in the mid 80s, the film relates the collegiate memoirs of elizabeth wurtzel, who now writes a music column for the. Prozac nation quotes by elizabeth wurtzelpage 2 of 6 goodreads. Young and depressed in america a memoir new by elizabeth wurtzel isbn. Prozac nation is a case study of clinical depression with ricci as a harvard frosh trying to cope with her own identity crisis, poor self esteem, and uncontrollable mood swings. Prozac nation is a young persons book, both in terms of its author. Born in 1967, wurtzel grew up in new york city, the precocious only child of divorced parents. Twentysixyearold wurtzel, a former critic of popular music for new york and the new yorker, recounts in this luridly intimate memoir the 10 years of.
Prozac nation book the indianapolis public library. It is based on the 1994 autobiography of the same name by elizabeth wurtzel, which describes wurtzels experiences with atypical depression. It ultimately carried the subtitle young and depressed. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that its impossible to ever see the end. Painful, poignant, and ultimately triumphant, prozac nation is elizabeth wurtzels catharsisa cry of rage at the chronic depression which has dominated most of her young life. When talented young writer elizabeth wurtzel earns a scholarship to harvard, she sees it as her chance to escape the pressures of her. Elizabeth wurtzel who famously has known depression, prozac, heroin and cocaine found a way when she secluded herself in florida to write a. Prozac nation 1212 movie clip gradually and then suddenly 2001 hd movieclips.
In praise of difficult women paperback may 18, 1999. Elizabeth wurtzel, prozac nation author who spurred a. Playlists containing an excerpt from prozac nation, written by elizabeth wurtzel, read by rm. New yorkelizabeth wurtzel, whose blunt and painful confessions of her struggles with addiction and depression in the bestselling prozac nation made her a voice and a target for an. Biggest pharmaceutical companies are turning us all into patients, in an excerpt from their book in the nation 2005 write that in 1998 the pharmaceutical company eli lilly convinced the federal drug administration fda that premenstrual dysphoric disorder pmdd is a real disorder. New yorker elizabeth wurtzel writes with her finger on the faint pulse of an over diagnosed generation whose ruling icons are kurt cobain.
With prozac nation, elizabeth wurtzel blew open the memoir as we. Prozac nation read more samantha often told me about how depressed and despondent shed once been, how she used to cry herself to sleep in her boyfriends bed in london because she felt so lonely, even lying beside him, and how shed stand up and walk out in the middle of dinner parties without excusing herself because she needed to burst into tears for no apparent reason. Young and depressed in america is no longer on the shelves. Chastity farr clinical psychology section 25673 april 23, 2010 introduction prozac nation, is a bestselling memoir written by elizabeth wurtzel in 1994. A memoir of a depressed, heavily medicated young woman who identifies with sylvia plath, anne sexton, and other tragic figuresand fantasizes about being profiled as a tragic suicide in new york magazine. The antidepressant fact book what your doctor wont tell you about prozac, zoloft, paxil, celexa, and luvox. Elizabeth wurtzel is the author of bestselling books including prozac nation, bitch, and more, now, again. Three, you can sit in bed with your book and have lots of fun and then not have to worry about deleting your computer history.
Since her depression is not easily diagnosed and the mental health field is still new and growing, she is not correctly diagnosed until her twenties. An excerpt from prozac nation, written by elizabeth. The new yorker elizabeth wurtzel writes with her finger in the faint pulse of an overdiagnosed generation whose ruling icons are kurt cobain, xanax, and pierced tongues. Prozac nation essay 1540 words 7 pages running head. The title is a reference to prozac, the name of an eli lilly and company manufactured antidepressant which was prescribed for wurtzel. In praise of difficult women, lauded every woman, from delilah to yoko ono, who has made herself unlikable. Prozac nation author elizabeth wurtzel country united states language english genre memoir publisher riverhead trade publication date 1994 pages 384 pages isbn 9781573225120 first edition prozac nation is a memoir by. Elizabeth wurtzel, prozac nation author, is dead at 52.
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