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Prozac Nation

: Young and Depressed in America

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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“Insanity is knowing that what you’re doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can’t stop it.”

— Elizabeth Wurtzel, amazon.com

Tagged: Insanity, human action, Human Behavior

“I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on.”

— Elizabeth Wurtzel, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Loving Someone, romance

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

— Elizabeth Wurtzel, amazon.com

Tagged: Homesickness, Missing, Longing, Loneliness, State of Mind

“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: Depression, Sad Statements, Loneliness