![]() Towards the end of her book, she describes a “black wave” of depression that led to a suicide attempt and how she recovered with the help of the drug Prozac.įour years later, Wurtzel wrote Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women-a series of five extended essays in which she links the lives of four very different women. A year later, she was spiraling into depression. She explicitly described cutting herself on her legs with razor blades when she was 12-years-old. In her memoir, Wurtzel chronicles her tormented adolescence and the challenges of growing up with divorced parents, who separated when she was a baby.īy age 11, Wurtzel wrote about her first overdose at a summer camp on the allergy medicine Atarax. The book’s title was inspired by the antidepressant she was prescribed. Her 1994 literary debut, Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America, openly spoke about her difficult childhood, time at Harvard, and ongoing depression. ![]() ![]() She was also a one-time writer for The Daily Beast. ![]() Wurtzel began her writing career in the '90s, pushing her way into the public scene with her extreme candor and use of the personal memoir after being previously unknown outside New York literary circles. ![]()
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