Summary Of Prozac By Elizabeth Wurtzel Summary

This book is about Elizabeth Wurtzel, a chronically depressed Harvard graduate detailing the seriousness of her illness. Although she states in her Epilogue that she does not know what reason exactly compelled to write this memoir, she does delineate some elements that motivated her, such as the desire for people to understand the Prozac ‘situation’ as well as citing simple reasons, such as the need to express one’s story, and her own personal need to vent out on paper when so many people, she felt, needed to know. Her descriptions in the book try to elucidate what depression really is for the depressed, and how it can truly be a debilitating illness like any other. The book can be best described, in light of this, as a case study of the average depressed person in link with prescription drugs and mental health awareness. She does this be letting the reader get to know her story, her condition, and her depressed side. As my friend said, it is like
She takes such gross liberties with the language and manages to squeeze out so little of her mutilations that at times her own stylistics are sadder than her case. At one point she decides to hit the reader with something to the equivalent of this, “!!!!!!!!!” We know what she meant, but it lousy attempt to try and deduce feelings of frustration, bewilderment, amazement, etc, to a single knot of symbols. This is what happens when women try to use words sometimes. They try to express complex emotions through strange use of symbols, elaborate argumentation, and other such sure failures in expression. Emotion cannot be expressed on the page. You can say she was such and such a thing, but it is better to leave the reader to conclude for themselves what the feelings are, and sympathize with that. You need to contextualize. If you say your favorite dog died, I immediately sympathize. So, you cannot ask me to sympathize with you by simply saying that you are sad, let alone writing