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A dazzling and powerful account of a life profoundly altered by Prozac-- "surely among the best on the long-term effects of the drug" (The New York Times)
In 1988, at age 26, Lauren Slater lived alone in a basement apartment in Cambridge, depressed, suicidal, unemployed. Ten years later, she is a psychologist running her own clinic, an award-winning writer, and happily married. The transformation in her life was brought about by Prozac. Prozac Diary is Lauren Slater's incisive account of a life restored to productivity, creativity, and love. When she wakes up one morning and finds that her demons no longer have a hold on her, Slater struggles with the strange state of being well after a lifetime of craziness. Yet this is no hymn to a miracle pharmaceutical. It is a frankly ambivalent quest for the truth of self behind an ongoing reliance on a drug. Slater also addresses Prozac's notorious "poop-out" effect and its devastating attack on her libido. This is the first memoir to reflect on long-term Prozac use, and reviewers agree that no one has written about Prozac with such beauty, honesty, and insight.
* 12 million Americans take Prozac regularly
* Prozac Diary appeared on the Boston Globe and Independent bestseller lists
* Penguin Readers Guide Bound into Every Book
"Powerful. . . . The chemistry of Prozac Diary is beautiful." --Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times
In 1988, at age 26, Lauren Slater lived alone in a basement apartment in Cambridge, depressed, suicidal, unemployed. Ten years later, she is a psychologist running her own clinic, an award-winning writer, and happily married. The transformation in her life was brought about by Prozac. Prozac Diary is Lauren Slater's incisive account of a life restored to productivity, creativity, and love. When she wakes up one morning and finds that her demons no longer have a hold on her, Slater struggles with the strange state of being well after a lifetime of craziness. Yet this is no hymn to a miracle pharmaceutical. It is a frankly ambivalent quest for the truth of self behind an ongoing reliance on a drug. Slater also addresses Prozac's notorious "poop-out" effect and its devastating attack on her libido. This is the first memoir to reflect on long-term Prozac use, and reviewers agree that no one has written about Prozac with such beauty, honesty, and insight.
* 12 million Americans take Prozac regularly
* Prozac Diary appeared on the Boston Globe and Independent bestseller lists
* Penguin Readers Guide Bound into Every Book
"Powerful. . . . The chemistry of Prozac Diary is beautiful." --Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times
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Don't let the title or cover deceive you. This is a beautifully written book. I've read 4 books by Lauren Slater and loved them all.
Wow, what a beautifully written book!! Often I would stop to re-read a sentence or a passage because it struck me as so beautifully crafted. On a snowy winter's day: "I always went outside in this kind of weather. It seemed to me the angels were dropping stars from the sky." On her own history of mental illness: "I was five and the roses were red claws. I was ten and terrified to go outside...At fifteen, right when my life should have been growing, it warbled and shrank to the size of a hard, dark dot." But I also liked this book because she was so determined to get well; she was very observant about what was happening in her mind and body during her years on Prozac, and worried about what she might have been losing at the same time she was being helped by this treatment. I think anyone struggling with depression or who has any experience with Prozac will find this book helpful in addition to appreciating her gifted writing style.
A memoir of what is can be like to one day wake up sane after years of feeling depressed and suicidal.
Morvie B. (I read this book and after my husband slid into mental illness. He said some of the same things she said. I was surprized and enlightened by the book and enjoyed it. I loaned it to my daughters psychotherapist and he never gave it back!
I was not impressed by this book at all. The author keeps reminding the reader of how "creative" she was prior to being on prozac. This is not a great story to really understand someone on Prozac.
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