Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America by Elizabeth Wurtzel

7 reviews

notcutemj's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring sad fast-paced

4.75

she gets it 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

janessakat's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

3.5

Beautifully written. I learned an entirely new vocabulary from Wurtzel’s intricate writing style. The way she writes about depression is almost beyond words. She makes a very individualized experience seem relatable in a sense. However, this book was redundant and could have been shortened to less than 300 pages.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, and Suicide attempt

queenmarshmallow's review against another edition

dark emotional fast-paced

2.0

This book would have been better organized as a chronological memoir instead of jumping around in time with some large sections of chapters in italics. Overall it’s not as sensational as I remember reading it in the 90s. Elizabeth sounds like a real pain to be around and  the people who try to be supportive of her aren’t the bad guys she makes them out to be. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse and Suicide

shammai's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

amandag's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-paced

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Self harm, Suicide, Abortion, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Suicidal thoughts

daughterofcain's review against another edition

emotional funny sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Miscarriage, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol

poisontree's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

omfg
this got me out of a month long slump and it’s probably because of the tone of her writing
there was a lot to relate to and wasnt super gruelling to read
i definitely understand the grouping of prozac nation, girl interrupted and the bell jar
will i ever get tired of the depressed white girl genre who knows
i think at times i didnt really know what was happening but just went with it, reminding myself it was all nonfiction 
i think the biggest thing for me is seeing similarities in my world
i feel like more than half the people in our generation would doubly relate to this
i found the fact that the last pages suddenly were about nirvana kinda funny but it made sense
i live for pop culture references and music references so i really liked reading this
thats all
from ur trusty neighbourhood camibug

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Violence, Vomit, Suicide attempt, and Injury/Injury detail