Summary of Elizabeth Wurtzel's Prozac Nation

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#1 I was on many psychoactive drugs, and I stopped taking my lithium a few weeks before. I had my blood levels taken at the laboratory, and I had an unusually high concentration of thyroid stimulating hormone, which means that the lithium was wreaking havoc on my glands.

#2 I was determined to coldkick my lithium. I did a few lines in the bathroom with Jethro, cutting them up on a Pogues CD. I felt a whole lot better, and I went out and mixed and mingled. But then I started coming down, and everything turned ugly.

#3 I was planning on getting coked up again and planning an epic Marxist-feminist study of Biblical villainesses, but instead I began to cry uncontrollably. I was certain that my friends would never understand the philosophical underpinnings of my state.

#4 I have been on these pills for years, and I’m starting to wonder if I might not be one of those people like Anne Sexton or Sylvia Plath who are just better off dead. I stand up to take out my contact lenses, which are falling out anyway.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jul 26, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822552388

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Insights on Elizabeth Wurtzel's Prozac Nation

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I was on many psychoactive drugs, and I stopped taking my lithium a few weeks before. I had my blood levels taken at the laboratory, and I had an unusually high concentration of thyroid stimulating hormone, which means that the lithium was wreaking havoc on my glands.

#2

I was determined to coldkick my lithium. I did a few lines in the bathroom with Jethro, cutting them up on a Pogues CD. I felt a whole lot better, and I went out and mixed and mingled. But then I started coming down, and everything turned ugly.

#3

I was planning on getting coked up again and planning an epic Marxist-feminist study of Biblical villainesses, but instead I began to cry uncontrollably. I was certain that my friends would never understand the philosophical underpinnings of my state.

#4

I have been on these pills for years, and I’m starting to wonder if I might not be one of those people like Anne Sexton or Sylvia Plath who are just better off dead. I stand up to take out my contact lenses, which are falling out anyway.

#5

I have taken overdoses several times. The first time was at summer camp when I was twelve, when I began to read a book whose epigraph was from Heraclitus: How can you hide from what never goes away. I was trying to get my mind off my mind.

#6

I was in the process of becoming a woman, and the activities at camp seemed like a huge waste of time. I couldn’t help but think that life was just a series of distractions from the inevitable death.

#7

I took all the Atarax at camp, and I fell asleep, feeling comfortable numb. I was sick anyway, and had been staying in bed a lot. I didn’t want to go back to the infirmary, where gooey grape-flavored Dimetapp was universally recognized as the cure for all ills.

#8

I wanted to explain to the counselor that I was not depressed, but rather had chronic moroseness. I could not explain why it made