Submitted Literature
More, Now, Again
Review
Elizabeth Wurtzel’s bestselling “Prozac Nation” examines the rise in the diagnosis of depressive disorders and the phenomenon of lifestyle-use of Prozac. “More, Now, Again” examines her subsequent relapse and descent into Ritalin and Cocaine addiction – and recovery.
Key Themes:
- Addiction
- Autobiography
- Personality
- Revealing Reads
Significant Quotes / Pages
190 – “And really, what is addiction but slow suicide? It's not conscious on my part, but maybe this is killing me. I don't know any more. I don't want that. But for once I can see that is really on everyone else's mind. Drugs put the fear of God into people the way a bad mood, even one that goes on through decade, just does not. You can always wake up feeling better; that's always the hope with a depressive. But no one around me harbors that hope any longer. They are petrified. They are disgusted. At long last, my pain is a serious matter.
I've won.”
Reference: Elizabeth, Wurtzel. 2002. More, Now, Again. London: Virago, 2003
Reviewer
- Charley Baker
Date Review Submitted: Monday 23rd March 2009
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- Animals
- Antisocial Personality Disorder
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- Asylums
- auditory hallucinations
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- Bipolar Affective Disorder
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- Medical Training
- Meditation and Mindfulness
- Mental Illness and The Psychiatric Institution
- Morbid Jealousy
- Multiple Personality Disorder / Dissociative Identity Disorder
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- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
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- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Post-natal Depression
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- Schizoaffective Disorder
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- Test
- Tourettes Syndrome
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