Prozac Diary
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.79 (517 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0140263942 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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With utter candor (even about her dampened sexuality) and a surprising amount of humor, Slater chronicles the ups and downs of life on Prozac. The newly released drug liberated her from debilitating anxiety and pain even as it raised unsettling questions about her own identity, as she had always been defined by her afflictions. She finds new love and a better understanding of her past; she avoids the equally unrealistic extremes of Prozac boosters who ignore the drug's costs and doomsayers who depict it creating a generation of zombies. Slater's balanced final assessment is voiced, as usual, in exact, lyrical prose: "This is Prozac's burden and gift, keeping me alive to the most human of questions, bringing me forward, bringing me back, swaddling and unswaddling me, pushing me to ask which wrappings are real." --Wendy Smith. A nightmarish relapse when the dosage suddenly proves inadequate ("Prozac poop-out") ultimately helps her discover inner resources to combat her i
"This is an eye-opening book" according to anastascia. I had read about Prozac and its effects before I purchased this book. What I had read before was a joke. The author of this book describes her journey through Prozac in poetic style. She paints a picture of what life was like before, during, and after Prozac. Before she was nuts, shortly after taking Prozac she was highly functional, after the "Prozac Poop-out" she was nuts again. When Prozac stopped working they had to keep increasing her doseage, even to dangerous levels, to keep he. Honest, weird, worth reading. Kathlene Kelly Dr. Lauren Slater woke up one day to discover that Prozac had eliminated one of her most closely held realities - Obsessive/Compulsive Disorder (OCD). This book is a journal of her experiences for the ten years that would follow.Slater documents her fear of losing that comfortable reality, her ability to write creatively, her disciplined reading and eating habits, her inhibitions and her familiar internal voices. Having survived multiple hospitalizations for anorexia and other medical. "Good-enough diary of a long-time prozac patient" according to K. Eames. On a whole, Slater's work is a well-written description of her struggle with mental illness and the relief provided by prozac. She provides an excellent thumbnail summary of Peter Kramer's thesis in Listening to Prozac (itself a superb book) as it relates to her own experience. This is not a memoir that rehearses every injury, every grief, every small sorrow that has piled up to tip her into unhealthiness; it is instead a series of brief but salient vignettes that reveal just enough a
The transformation in her life was brought about by Prozac. In 1988, at age 26, Lauren Slater lived alone in a basement apartment in Cambridge, depressed, suicidal, unemployed. 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.. Ten years later, she is a psychologist running her own clinic, an award-winning writer, and happily married. It is a frankly ambivalent quest for the truth of self behind an ongoing reliance on a drug. 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. Slater also addresses Prozac's notorious "poop-out" effect and its devastating attack on her libido. Prozac Diary is Lauren Slater's incisive account of a life restored to productivity, creativity, and love. Yet this is no hymn to a miracle pharmaceutical