PROZAC NATION by Elizabeth Wurtzel.

Read it in 1996; was depressed, got even more depressed.

read a review by Douglas A. Smith:

As Sigmund Freud said, two of the most important aspects of anyone’s life are love and work.  When Elizabeth Wurtzel did well in these areas of her life, she was happy – and with no help from psychiatry.  When her life went poorly, she was despondent or “depressed,” whether or not she was taking Prozac and lithium or other psychiatric drugs or undergoing other psychiatric “therapy.”  Whether she realizes it or not, her 368 page memoir illustrates that her salvation, both before and after Prozac, came from living a life she enjoyed, not from any of psychiatry’s so-called therapies.

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now a new movie with Christina Ricci. have not watched it. dunno whether it’d be any good like Girl, Interrupted. now, this is one movie and book that i can watch and read again and again. but prozac nation? … never mind.