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Voices of Depression

The document contains several quotes from Elizabeth Wurtzel's memoir "Prozac Nation" that describe her experience with depression. The quotes convey feelings of exhaustion, invisibility, fear of giving up depression as part of her identity, and the gradual onset of losing her mind. One quote also likens depression to gradually slipping under its grip "and then suddenly."

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Voices of Depression

The document contains several quotes from Elizabeth Wurtzel's memoir "Prozac Nation" that describe her experience with depression. The quotes convey feelings of exhaustion, invisibility, fear of giving up depression as part of her identity, and the gradual onset of losing her mind. One quote also likens depression to gradually slipping under its grip "and then suddenly."

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That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees

the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever
see the end.
Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

I'm the girl who is lost in space, the girl who is disappearing always, forever fading away and
receding farther and farther into the background. Just like the Cheshire cat, someday I will suddenly
leave, but the artificial warmth of my smile, that phony, clownish curve, the kind you see on
miserably sad people and villains in Disney movies, will remain behind as an ironic remnant. I am
the girl you see in the photograph from some party someplace or some picnic in the park, the one
who is in fact soon to be gone. When you look at the picture again, I want to assure you, I will no
longer be there. I will be erased from history, like a traitor in the Soviet Union. Because with every
day that goes by, I feel myself becoming more and more invisible...
Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. Ive had it. I am so tired. I am
twenty and I am already exhausted.
Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

I was so scared to give up depression, fearing that somehow the worst part of me was actually all of
me.
Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

I mean, if you were to find a shattered mirror, find all the pieces, all the shards and all the tiny
chips, and have whatever skill and patience it took to put all that broken glass back together so that it
was complete once again, the restored mirror would still be spiderwebbed with cracks, it would still
be a useless glued version of its former self, which could show only fragmented reflections of anyone
looking into it. Some things are beyond repair. And that was me.
Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

In the meantime, I could withdraw to my room, could hide and sleep as if I were dead
Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

There is a classic moment in The Sun Also Rises when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went
bankrupt, and all he can say in response is, Gradually and then suddenly. When someone asks how
I lost my mind, thats all I can say too.
Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But
even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from
there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.
Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

We Are All Infinite


Stephen Chbosky

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