Elizabeth Wurtzel

Elizabeth Wurtzel's New York Times best-selling memoir, with a new afterword "Sparkling, luminescent prose . . . A powerful portrait of one girl's journey through the purgatory of depression and back." —New York Times "A book that became a cultural touchstone." —New Yorker Elizabeth Wurtzel writes with her finger on the faint pulse of an overdiagnosed generation whose ruling icons are Kurt Cobain, Xanax, and pierced tongues. Her famous memoir of her bouts with depression and skirmishes with drugs, Prozac Nation is a witty and sharp account of the psychopharmacology of an era for readers of Girl, Interrupted and Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar.

Young and Depressed in America

Prozac Nation

Kendall Lobdell

I start to think there really is no Cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I’ll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it’s worth it

knowing versus knowing, head versus heart

I need that thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on

But then I never had to worry about a crash landing because I never even took off. 

. . . Only knowing that the sun is shining because you feel the ache of its awful heat and not because you know the joy of its light. Imagine being always in the dark. 

Homesickness is just a state of mind for me. I’m always missing someone or someplace or something, I’m always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. My life has been one long longing. 

My god, where on earth do I have to go to get away from me?

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