Blog assignment # 5 : Reading " Prozac Nation" by Elizabeth Wurtzel

I read  " Prozac Nation" from Elizabeth Wurtzel because I really like the particular style of writing of this author. At first was a little doubtful on weather I would like it or not. I went out on a limb, and decided to do the actual reading. I decided to start reading that same night.A quote that grabbed my attention was " I have spent so much time trying to convince people that I really am depressed,  that I can't cope -- but now that is finally true I don't want to admit it. I'm petrified by what is happening to me, so frightened of what the bottom of the well will look like once I sink down there, so frightned that this in fact, this is it".  Elizabeth Wurtzel expresses the ups and downs, ins and outs, and everything in between of depression in such ways that you just can’t put the reading down. As I was reading i was able to compare some family members that claimed they had depression and the different states that they go thhrough. Elizabeth Wurtzel grew up in a family with a mother and a father like any normal kid, but when she was a kid, her parents split up. Her mother was left to be a single-mother, not receiving any money from a deadbeat dad. Her parents had always fought, about money, Elizabeth and everything you can think of. This is one of the major reasons Elizabeth fell into a depression. Elizabeth’s self-esteem was seriously harmed after her father telling her, her mother wanted to have an abortion, but he had to hold her back not too. After I finished the reading, I was able to have a better understanding of how a depressed person feels and how much the need of attention can affect them.