Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Prozac Nation
Book Review: A must-read
Summary: 4 Stars
Eizabeth Wurtzel's memoir seemed very trivial to me at first. I am not a child of divorce so I have no idea what caused my depression. But as I read further, I found her putting words to feelings that I myself have had and have been unable to express to many people. I think that anyone who is living with, or knows someone suffering from depression needs to read this book. If only to get an idea of how it really feels when that black wave washes over you.Book Review: A must-read for any young woman battling depression
Summary: 5 Stars
"One morning you wake up afraid you are going to live." Elizabeth Wurtzel relates her battle with depression on a personal level, and her story helped me more than any unpersonal self-help book about depression that I've ever read. Her use of prose to express her feelings mirrored the thoughts of a depressed person so well, and merely knowing that other people have the same thoughts was very healing. I would recommend this book to any young woman dealing with depression.Book Review: A new favorite
Summary: 5 Stars
I thought this book was beautiful and touching and have no doubt that I will pick it up and read it again sometime very soon. However, I am not surprised that many readers found this book to be somewhat tedious or immature, or that they had difficulty identifying with the author. As someone who has been through depression, I related to this book on so many levels. The feelings expressed and the thought processes were so familiar that I often found myself thinking about things in my life that I had tried to desperately to forget. I am someone from the same area, someone who has been to the same hospitals, someone who has felt and done the same types of things. Now, I am about to graduate from law school and am excited about the future. My journey to this point has been long and arduous, as I am sure the author's will continue to be.
For readers who have never felt the way the author has felt, I can understand their lack of ability to relate. However, to call what she is feeling immature or whiney is a close-minded view that I think you all should be somewhat ashamed of. Yes, many of these events happened when the author was young, respectively, but I think that it takes a certain amount of age and experience to understand why you feel the way you feel and to put it into proper perspective. To the readers who did not enjoy the book: I think you need to wake up and understand the realities of the world. Not understanding this book or enjoying it shows me that you still cannot grasp the idea that someone can be depressed, for a long time, for no particlar reason. Shame on you.
This book was a very quick read, with beautiful language. The author articulates feelings that so many of us have felt but been unable to express. Prozac Nation is definitely one of my new favorite books.
Book Review: A powerful book
Summary: 5 Stars
I disagree strongly with the people who have reviewed this book and said that it is "oh poor me" and a bunch of whining and I also disagree with the people that say it adds to stigma and is too much. It is a memoir and having suffered through depression like the author I felt the book described very well what I have gone through. I never felt the author was being selfish and I think if you think that you don't really know the depths of depression. When she said depression is a selfish disease she did not mean that the way that some people seem to think she did. What she meant was that depression takes over your entire being so that you are so introverted all you can think about is yourself by no fault of your own. I first read this book about 4 years ago and I read it now and then to feel better about what I'm going through and to know that there are other people out there. People who already think that depression is not a chemical imbalance and is one's own fault should not read this book because you have already formed an opinion and you would not understand the book.Book Review: A powerful insight
Summary: 4 Stars
Wurtzel's book depicts a powerful insight into the chaotic state of depression so many people find themselves in. The beauty of the book does not lie in its literary grandeur or its potential to become a classic (I am not confident that it has either hence 4/5 stars); but in the priceless ability it has to speak personally to the reader. It has a nack for exploiting the gritty, tangled truth that is so difficult to pin-point. A tangible account which is an absolutely essential read for anyone trapped in the termoil of depression (or one involved with someone who is). The virile images the author indulges in are striking and at times grotesque, illustrating with horrific honesty the reality of an ellusive sickness. It will help you understand the logic of the depressed mind!