Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation Quotes
Everything's plastic, we're all going to die sooner or later, so what does it matter.
If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking
One of the terrible fallacies of contemporary psychotherapy is that if people would just say how they felt, a lot of problems could be solved.
I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.
I don't think it matters how many parents you've got, as long as those who are around make their presence a good one.
Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression.
Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent
It's nonverbal: I need love. I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on. And I know it's around me somewhere, but I just can't feel it.
In my case, I was not frightened in the least bit at the thought that I might live because I was certain, quite certain, that I was already dead.
I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on.
In the meantime, I could withdraw to my room, could hide and sleep as if I were dead
As someone very sagely said during the parricide trials of the Menendez Brothers: anytime your kids kill you, you are at least partly to blame.
I know by now, only too well, that you can never get away from yourself because you never go away.
I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I’ve had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.
I don't think it matters how many parents you've got, so long as the ones who are around make their presence in a long way.