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RIP Elizabeth ‘Prozac Nation’ Wurtzel (1967 – 2020)

Elizabeth Wurtzel was an American writer, best known for her novel Prozac Nation (1994).


The first lines of that novel read:

“I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong. Like all the drugs put together-the lithium, the Prozac, the desipramine, and Desyrel that I take to sleep at night-can no longer combat whatever it is that was wrong with me in the first place. I feel like a defective model, like I came off the assembly line flat-out fucked and my parents should have taken me back for repairs before the warranty ran out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfuHwrHG76U
Prozac Nation

Here is the film.

It’s not very good. But it will take you less time than reading the book and you’ll get it all the same.