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Prozac
Diary
(Paperback - 19998)
The author describes
in this provocative and funny memoir the ups and downs
of living on Prozac for ten years, and the strange
adjustments she had to make toward living a "normal
life."
Today millions
of people take Prozac, but Lauren Slater was one of
the first. In this rich and beautifully written memoir,
she describes what it's like to spend most of your
life feeling crazy -- and then to wake up one day
and find yourself in the strange state of feeling
well, and then to face the challenge of creating a
whole new life.
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Once inhibited, Slater
becomes spontaneous. Once terrified of maintaining a job,
she accepts a teaching position and ultimately earns several
degrees in psychology. Once lonely, she finds love with
a man who adores her. Slater is wonderfully thoughtful and
articulate about all these changes, and also about the downside
of taking Prozac: such matters as dependency, sexual dysfunction,
and Prozac "poop-out."
"The beauty of
Lauren Slater's prose is shocking," said Newsday about
Welcome to My Country. Slater's remarkable gifts as a writer
are present here in sentences that are like elegant darts,
hitting at the center of the deepest human feelings. Prozac
Diary is a wonderfully written report from inside a decade
on Prozac, and an original writer's acute observations on
the challenges of living modern life.
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