Prozac Diary

In her memoir Prozac Diary Lauren Slater describes how Prozac liberated her from debilitating depression... 

In the first chapter I mentioned Lauren Slater s memoir, Prozac Diary. Recall Slater s description of how Prozac liberated her from crushing depression and debilitating ob-... 

In Prozac Diary Lauren Slater observes that though a great deal has been written about what happens to people when they become sick, very little has been said about the equally powerful consequences of becoming well. Like the inmates portrayed in the movie The Shawshank Redemption who cannot deal with freedom after decades of institutionalization, some of my interviewees found it difficult to contemplate—and sometimes live—a life free of depression or mania. They missed their illness because it is who they fundamentally define themselves to be. While the vast majority of those who suffer from affective disorders choose pills over pain, the choice is not as easy as one might imagine ... 

See, fot example, L. Slatet, Prozac Diary (New Yotk Random House, 1998) K. Jamison, An Unquiet Mind A Memoir of Moods and Madness (New Yotk Knopf, 1995) S. Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted (New Yotk Random House, 1993) S. Plath, The Bell Jar (New York Bantam, 1972) N. Maits, Plaintext Essays (Tucson, Ariz. University of Arizona Press, 1986) W. Styron, Darkness Visible A Memoir of Madness (New York Random House, 1990) E. Wurtzel, Prozac Nation (Boston, Mass. Houghton Mifflin Co., 1994). 

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