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Prozac Nation

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<BR

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“Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it's the worst.”

— Elizabeth Wurtzel, amazon.com

Tagged: Depression, dead, alive, H4D-2

“That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end.”

— Elizabeth Wurtzel, amazon.com

Tagged: Depression Awareness, Mental Health Awareness

“Some friends don’t understand this. They don’t understand how desperate I am to have someone say, I love you and I support you just the way you are because you’re wonderful just the way you are. They don’t understand that I can’t remember anyone ever saying that to me. I am so demanding and difficul…”

— Elizabeth Wurtzel, amazon.com

Tagged: Living With Depression, Sadness, Darkness, Mental Health, Waking Up

“Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent.”

— Elizabeth Wurtzel, amazon.com

Tagged: Mental Illness, Depression, Pills, cures

“If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking.”

— Elizabeth Wurtzel, amazon.com

Tagged: Depression, Survival, Suffering

“That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.”

— Elizabeth Wurtzel, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Pain, purpose

“Some friends don't understand this. They don't understand how desperate I am to have someone say, I love you and I support you just the way you are because you're wonderful just the way you are. They don't understand that I can't remember anyone ever saying that to me. I am so demanding and difficul…”

— Elizabeth Wurtzel, amazon.com

Tagged: Friends, Depression, Understanding, Love

“That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end.”

— Elizabeth Wurtzel, amazon.com

Tagged: Depression, Survival, humans