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Elizabeth Wurtzel writes with her finger in the faint pulse of a generation whose ruling icons are Kurt Cobain, Xanax, and pierced tongues. A memoir of her bouts with depression and skirmishes with drugs, Prozac Nation still manages to be a witty and sharp account of the psychopharmacology of an era.
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From toddlerhood on, Wurtzel was recognized as bright and gifted. What people didn't know was that by the time she was 11, she was depressed, first overdosing while a kid at summer camp. Her description of life as a depressive is so precise, so filled with the horror, the tedium, and, yes, even the funny moments she experienced on her spiral downward that readers will feel like they're being taken down with her. The title, Prozac Nation, is Wurtzel's term for her generation's collective bad mood. It's a resonant concept, but the notion that Generation X'ers are uniquely susceptible to depressive illnesses does not really take into account the Valium generation and the Miltown generation before that. On the other hand, what does make today's young depressives different from their predecessors is the availability of Prozac and other drugs of its ilk, which work on the brain in new ways and are considered almost miraculous by many who take them. (Wurtzel herself, though skeptical about the drug's long-term effects, is convinced it saved her life.) While the agonizing descriptions of life in shades of black and blue are intensely moving, it's Wurtzel's last chapter, in which she muses on the effects of Prozac both in medical and philosophical terms, that will really get readers thinking. Like Peter Kramer in Listening to Prozac (1993), Wurtzel questions why six million people have felt the need to take the drug. Why, she asks, has depression, once considered a tragic state of mind, now become an utterly commonplace condition? Are doctors overmedicating their unhappy patients, or should Prozac be handed out even more readily? Is the world, in fact, "too difficult to negotiate without some kind of a chemical buffer zone"? Expect lots of talk about this one as the currently depressed, the formerly depressed, and the soon-to-be depressed debate the nagging question of how to feel better. Ilene Cooper
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Why doesn't anybody realize that what Elizabeth Wurtzel describes in her book, very accurately and honest to the bone, is not depression but the manifestation of a typical borderline personality disorder? I read this book - with its misleading title (it has nothing whatsoever to do with Prozac - and, as we learn from the intro, Prozac has done nothing whatsoever for Elizabeth Wurtzel) - when I was about 19, and I found myself in it, although I wouldn't have liked to admit that. About three years later I was diagnosed as a borderline. Reading on and on on the subject I think there is hardly any other book picturing the desperate and chaotic life of a borderline better. In fact, it is painful to read this book, painful as the onlooker, painful when identifying with the protagonist. And why did Elizabeth Wurtzel never correct her error of accepting a diagnosis like atypical depression?
If you want to read about depression, go read another book. If you want to get a glimpse of what it is like to live as an undiagnosed and un-helped borderline, then read this one!
If you want to read about depression, go read another book. If you want to get a glimpse of what it is like to live as an undiagnosed and un-helped borderline, then read this one!
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An immaculate girl -"full of promise"- is drawn into the maelstrom of depression and leads a life not worth living, a life consisting of self-mutilation, psychological therapy, breakdowns, suicide attempts and hospitalizations. Elizabeth Wurtzel portrays her suffering through depression in a very cynical, yet incredibly genuine and almost brutally honest manner, which harbingers a great amount of empathy among those readers who have stood at the same calamitous abyss between life and death. Anyone who has experienced a gloomy, lachrymose disaster corresponding to the author's malediction of the "black wave" will love this book, but not for the reason of being entertained by an enjoyable movie-like plot glamorizing the disease. Instead, the story of Elizabeth Wurtzel is tremendously provocative due to the fact of not aiming to conceal the atrocious truth or eliciting factitious dismay and pity from the reader. Therefore, the book entails and nearly forces a lucid, but mellow revolution dealing with the self-perception of depressive people as they are challenged to immerse in discerning the truth in a raw, yet self-conscious way with the purpose to realize and to concretize their problems. Furthermore, the novel is equipped with references to other significant books, for instance "The bell jar", and a fabulous imaginative soundtrack containing the works of Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and various further artists. If you've been wondering why Kurt Cobain meant what he did - what it feels like to be young, gifted, and black of spirit - this book is the CD, tape, video, and literary answer all in one. After all, reading this book helped at least me a whole lot; it changed my life and opened my eyes. I had never expected anyone would be able to write anything like this, I deeply adore Elizabeth Wurtzel for her courage as the result was for me much more than a plain book. Thank you.
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Prozac Nation is a very good book which describes the state of depression (the state of Elizabeth Wurtzel's depression) that good that the reader is drawn into it and can sort of feel what she writes about. Anyway, I think only those knowing how it is to be depressed can truly enjoy this book, they will find themselves in it - if still depressed - and will remember their own feelings, if they made it through depression already. Through reading this book you will get a new point of view of your own depression as well as depression in general - it makes clear that depression is a real disease, perhaps even more serious and devastating than any physical diseases.
The book contains very detailed information, e.g. about medicaments like valium or mellanil and how they work in Wurtzel's body, or about her feelings.
Yet I found that book difficult and slow to read over some pages.
To put the whole matter into a nutshell: If you have to do ANYTHING with depression, whether you are depressed yourself or only want to know more about it - read that book, it is terrible true and honest, telling about a girl full of promise getting destroyed by depression.
The book contains very detailed information, e.g. about medicaments like valium or mellanil and how they work in Wurtzel's body, or about her feelings.
Yet I found that book difficult and slow to read over some pages.
To put the whole matter into a nutshell: If you have to do ANYTHING with depression, whether you are depressed yourself or only want to know more about it - read that book, it is terrible true and honest, telling about a girl full of promise getting destroyed by depression.
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It's even worse for men
I think I can top Elizabeth Wurtzel. I was on Prozac, and then Klonopin, all while being charged with the responsibility of potentially leading combat troops into Kosovo during... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 28. Juli 2000 veröffentlicht
Intelligent and Fiery
Wurtzel sure spoke to me in this memoir, not because I, personally, suffer from depression (at least not of this magnitude) but because, underneath all that depression she is a... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 21. Juli 2000 von Alexie Kinast
For the depressed who feel like no one understands
I've been battling depression for as long as i can remember, althought it was not diagnosesd until 2 years ago. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 15. Juli 2000 von Mister T's Mom
Nothing..ness
Only a few days ago I would have rated this with 4 or maybe even 3 stars. But as I reached the end of this book and to the afterword by the author something changed. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 6. Juli 2000 von Charity Kingsley
Poignant, thought provoking...
I would recommend this book to anyone who is suffering from depression or knows anyone who has. I thought that it really gave a clear picture of how someone who is depressed is... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 5. Juli 2000 von "jlenj"
A ride to hell and back
As one being diagnosed with major depression single episode and anxiety disorder/social phobia, and having been presribed prozac as a result, I found Prozac Nation to be a very... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 27. Juni 2000 von "squonk12"
I Loved it!
This book was absolutely amazing. You should deffinetly read it if you are depressed or if you know someone close to you who is. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 18. April 2000 von Elaine
This book practically saved my life.
Reading Wurtzel's book is like having a friend's shoulder to cry on. ...More therapeutic than psychotherapy, and a helluva lot cheaper. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 23. März 2000 von John S. Harris
prozac filtration
i think that this book could have been done a lot better. it was put together a bit sloppily, but it is a memoir, and if i am going to read something like that, i guess i can't... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 8. März 2000 von AngryKittenGrrl
title is misleading,only last chapter deals with prozac
why is this book called prozac nation? it would have made more sense if the book was called depressed and young in america. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 2. März 2000 veröffentlicht
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