Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16320 in Books
• Published on: 1996-03-01
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

Synopsis
An account, both harrowing and amusing, of the author's dependence on Prozac, prescribed for her after a series of suicide attempts and breakdowns. She describes her experiences and her determination to get herself off medication.

Customer Reviews

YES! EXACTLY!!!
Several times as I was reading "Prozac Nation", I thought, "I want my parents, my friends, everybody to read this memoir!" It's on the spot! Completely!

Elizabeth Wurtzel manages an amazing feat. She describes her depression without dramatizing or romanticizing it. It's ugly, discouraging, and dark, but it's true and honest. "Prozac Nation" isn't a fun read or a memoir you plow through forgetting the details. "Prozac Nation" devours you.

"Prozac Nation" is Elizabeth's story of growing up with divorced parents, about being the kid in the middle of feuting parents, being the odd man out in school, and over time, suddenly, despressive. The majority of the story is when Elizabeth is at Harvard in the grounding mill of academia, treatment, the black wave, and life (and death).

One of the thing that I like about "Prozac Nation" is that it doesn't end. No "and she lived happily ever after. The end". The realization that you never truly recover depression is there. You can get better, you can turn your life around, but you never forget.

Louise.

Excellent, excellent, excellent
I was completly enveloped in this book, from start to finish.
It was beautifully written, emotional and thought provoking.
There were times, whilst reading this, that I felt a desperation for Elizabeth's situation, wanting to keep reading because i needed to know that she would be o.k, at least until the end of the chapter!
I enjoyed this book so much i quickly ordered the sequel 'More, Now Again'.
i just feel compelled to know where the story goes....

powerful and relatable
I really loved this book.But maybe that's because I am only 25 and have had depression ever since I can remember.The book made ME feel that I was not alone and I really related to Elizabeth's feelings, which I think is hard for others(those who are not depressed)to understand sometimes.Maybe the reviewers who didn't like it can't really understand because, yes, we may be selfish and self-absorbed but it's an illness and it over comes you and unless you've experienced it yourself, believe me this is what it is like.