Synopsis Generation X meets Sylvia Plath in Wurtzel's memoir of her prolonged battle with crippling recurrences of clinical depression. Wurtzel's struggle began at age 12 when she began cutting her legs in the school bathroom. After a series of breakdowns, suicide attempts, and hospitalizations, she was finally given Prozac in combination with other psychoactive drugs, all of which have only worked sporadically, but to which she credits her recovery.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1999-05-01 |
| Size | | Height: | 9.3 in | | Width: | 6.0 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 22.4 oz |
Publisher's Note A memoir of sex, drugs, and depression indicts an overmedicated America as it chronicles the fortunes of a Harvard educated child of divorce who lived in the fast lane as a music critic, always fighting her chronic depression.
Industry Reviews "Wrenching and comical, self-indulgent and self-aware, Prozac Nation possesses the raw candor of Joan Didion's essays, the irritating emotional exhibitionism of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, and the wry, dark humor of a Bob Dylan song." Stone
"A very important book, particularly to the countless number of people who aren't sure what's wrong with them but are suffering from the negative thinking, erratic behavior, and dark moods associated with clinical depression. A powerful self-portrait...well worth reading." Stone
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