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Summary: A journey along with a lesson
Review: After reading this novel I simply fell in love with Ms. Wurtzel and immediatly began reading her other novels. I never felt I related so much to a memior as I did this novel. I have read both The Bell Jar and Girl, Interupted and neither compared to the comand of words and eloquent writing style of Wurtzel. There was a particular part in the novel when she describes how anxiety and depression can feel somewhat like an out of body experience, and the way she described it made me feel as though she had expressed this precise pain in a way so accurate I felt as though she were describing me. She comes across as brilliant (without a doubt, whether you like the novel or not her writing style is exquisite) and almost desirable. The last chapter is an amazing ending and couldnt have been written any better. I reccomend this novel for anyone who can relate with this pain.
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Summary: Excellent look into the depressed mind
Review: I think that everyone should read this book because I think that everyone can learn something about themselves from this book. I would be shocked to find someone who can not relate in some way to how the author feels in this book. I found it very true to life and it made me feel reasured to discover that I was not the only one who sometimes felt like everyone was against me and that things were just too hard. I think that this book can give everyone the reaurance that everything is going to be ok.
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Summary: well...
Review: I haven't read the book yet to be honest, but from what people have been saying, lazychild and kris10joy7 in particular, it sounds like a book I can really relate to. Just because you seem to have nothing wrong happeninging in your life, it doesn't mean you can't have depression. Last year I went through a rather big 'down time'. I wouldn't say it was full on depression, but enough to make me feel pretty unhappy. I still have to take two pills a day to stop me having anxiety attacks.
Anyways, my point is, sometimes its not the things around you that make you unhappy, its whats in your head. There doesn't have to be a reason, sometimes you just are.
And from what people are saying about this book, it seems a pretty realistic account of depression to me...
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Summary: I love the title
Review: Reading Prozac Nation was an eye opening experience for me. Looking at it from the point of view of someone who experienced comparitively mild depressive episodes, it really explained the possibilities of a behavior pattern as a result of clinical depression. For me it was a contemporary version of "Girl Interrupted" (Thank you Susanna) Depression makes life seem mundane, reptetive, and annoying for some people, and Elizabeth entertainingly portrays that fact.
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Summary: SO NOT ME
Review: i have been a depressed teenager sence i was 12-13 (about the time ms. wurtzel says she started getting seriously depressed. and i have had a knife to my wrist, i have spent whole weeks in bed and i know what it is like to look back and only be able to see your self this way. But in no way did i feel a conection with this girl, and i discourage people to read this book becasue they seem to think they come out with a better feeling and handle on how depressed people are, and my god that could not be farther from the truth, the only thing u can get out of this book in my opinion is what one girl, at different parts in her life thought as she tried to deal with her depression, that is it, i beg of u do not think u know more about being depressed if u have read this book.
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Summary: Understanding depression
Review: If you want to understand what it is like to have major depression, this is a must read. Wurtzel so easily puts into words exactly how it feels to have this disease (and we're talking the chemical imbalance that causes severe symptoms...it's a lot less prevalent than Eli Lilly would have you believe). While some parts of the book are slow and others seem whiny, all in all it contains a lot of good insight and observation. It's worth the time if you want to know about depression from a first hand source, or if you are a first hand source and want to feel less alone.
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Summary: Somewhat interesting but repetitive
Review: I enjoyed the first few chapters of this book--I liked her writing and her frankness. But then, you start to see a lot of holes in the story. Wurtzel's constant complaint is that they have no money. But yet, she attends private school, lives on the upper West side of Manhattan, goes to Harvard (no mention of who's paying that bill), and just jets around to wherever she wants to go while she's in college. Ooooh, I feel like LA this weekend. Off we go. How about Dallas? These aren't the common problems people without money usually deal with.What was curious is that she skipped her entire high school years. I kept looking to see if I missed something, but oops, Wurtzel forget to put it in. She takes us through middle school, where she's starting to cut her legs, be depressed, and fail in school. She's starting to be a mess. And then all of a sudden, we go from age 12 to Harvard! Umm, what happened in between? How did she manage to get into Harvard? Did she become unpsychotic, pull up her grades, attend high school as a normal girl? Did her depression go on vacation for 4 years, and then come back to her in college? I found this rather distracting, as she gives no information on how she ended up there, and who is paying for her bill. Anyway, I got about 2/3 through and then just stopped because it got repetitive. The same story. There was no growth, no change, Wurtzel didn't seem to want to get rid of her depression. She was now in her early 20s yet acted like the ten year old she was earlier in the book. Judging from the skipped high school years, I tend to think she made a lot of this up. And that really bothered me.
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Summary: Shocking
Review: I found this book to be VERY well written, which of course made it hard to put down. This book opened a whole now world to me, a person who is not depressed. She had such a strong story, full of insight and appeal. I now understand those with this disease and will never underestimate those with a depression problem. This book is a MUST read!
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Summary: Absorbing read
Review: But one you should be careful with. At times you may be reminded of a similar period in your life and sometimes that may not be too pleasant. In the end this book became Prozac for me - one chapter a day and one at night and for a while there it seemed like whenever my arms itched I wanted a razor to deal with them - but that should NEVER be encouraged - and well as I said this book really did become Prozac for me since you end up thinking crazy thoughts
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Summary: I'm priviliged, white, and depressed... wah wah wah. poor me
Review: I think that my title pretty much summarizes this book.
As a member of this generation, yes, I, for a brief period, was swept up in "depression." I, too, was priviliged, white, and at a ridiculously selective college.
Poor me, I thought.
My poor generation.
To be honest, this book could be a memoir of my ex-girlfriend. You know what I found out?
That isn't our generation, it is a very small subset who sit and feel sorry for themselves all the time... they are...
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