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I could not bear the deep freeze settling around my bones at the thought that yet another attempt to get out of my life alive would end in disappointment. Time became palpable and viscous. Every minute, every second, every nanosecond, wrapped around my spine so that my nerves tightened and ached. I faded into abstraction. A self-generated narcosis created a painful blank where my mind used to be.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Disappointment, Self, Mind

Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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.

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Brother, Kids, Parenting

Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Sometimes, I get so consumed by depression that it is hard to believe that the whole world doesn't stop and suffer with me.

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Believe, Suffering, World

"Prozac Nation". Book by Elizabeth Wurtzel, 1994.

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The brief relief of seeing other people when I leave my room turns into a desperate need to be alone, and then being alone turns into a terrible fear that I will have no friends, I will be alone in this world and in my life. I will eventually be so crazy from this black wave, which seems to be taking over my head with increasing frequency, that one day I will just kill myself, not for any great, thoughtful existential reasons, but because I need immediate relief.

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Crazy, Thoughtful, People

Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Woke up this morning afraid I was gonna live.

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Morning

Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.267, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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if only my whole life could be words and music, if only everything else could slip away.

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Whole Life, Words And Music, Slips

Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.154, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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I come from a family of screamers. If they are trying to express any emotion or idea beyond pass the salt, it comes in shrieks.

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Ideas, Trying, Salt

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I am crying over the elusive nature of love.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Cry, Elusive

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Am I worried people will say I'm repeating myself? Sure. One thought I had was to publish it as a novel but eventually I just decided to do what I wanted to do.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

People, Literature, Worried

"Snort story" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2002.

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A deeply true, wholly aching account of the dangerous way we live now--LOVE JUNKIE is great fun to read, and finally fully redemptive. Rachel Resnick brings a light, delightful touch to a hard subject, and creates a great, relatable, readable memoir.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Fun, Light, Way

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Oh, Ma, you're looking at all the trees, and I'm not even in the forest.

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Tree, Forests

Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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There are some remarks that are so stupid that to be even vaguely aware of them is the intellectual equivalent of living next door to Chernobyl.

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Stupid, Doors, Intellectual

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So many more cycles of elation of the first kiss, and devastation when it's over.

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Kissing, First Kiss, Elation

Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.267, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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After they had explored all the suns in the universe, and all the planets of all the suns, they realized there was no other life in the universe, and that they were alone. And they were very happy, because then they knew it was up to them to become all the things they had imagined they would find.

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Sun, Planets, Very Happy

Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.288, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Embrace fanaticism. Harness joie de vivre by pursuing insane interests, consuming passions, and constant sources of gratification that do not depend on the approval of others

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Passion, Approval Of Others, Insane

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Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent

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Depression, Pills, Mental Health

Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.319, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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That's what it's like in my head all the time, constant snow, constant weather patterns of all sorts - blizzards, cyclones.

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Weather, Snow, Cyclones

Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.153, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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I am fortunate to have been well paid for an almost pathological honesty.

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Honesty, Wells, Has Beens

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Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don't know the answer, I know only that I can't.

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Fake People, Hypocrisy, Sorrow

Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.269, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.

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Love, Depression, Knowing

Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.110, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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I believe women who are supported by men are prostitutes, that is that, and I am heartbroken to live through a time where Wall Street money means these women are not treated with due disdain.

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Heartbroken, Wall, Believe

"Elizabeth Wurtzel Confronts Her One-Night Stand of a Life". www.thecut.com. January 6, 2013.

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I'll see Naomi Wolf on television periodically, I have nothing against her and what she says, but I'll feel that she's a politician, like she's got an agenda to get across and that she doesn't always say what's really true or exactly what she feels.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Agendas, Television, Politician

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