Elizabeth Wurtzel: Depression Princess | Prozac Nation (2001)

A video about Elizabeth Wurzel, an American writer who "made a career out of her emotions" and her most well-known memoir «Prozac Nation» that came out in 1994, and was turned into a movie in 2001, and which deals with the topic of depression and mental health.

Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
1:32 - Content Warning! Elizabeth's family problems and childhood.
10:06 - Point 1. You don’t need to have a horrible backstory to justify your mental illness.
15:55 - Point 2. Mental Illnesses lie along the spectrum.
21:56 - Point 3. Mental illness can make you self-absorbed, selfish and hard to deal with.
35:26 - Point 4. A person can romanticize their own mental illness.
43:39 - Point 5. Everyone's recovery journey is different.
49:47 - Elizabeth's life after Prozac Nation (second memoir More, Now, Again, addiction, marriage, battle with cancer)

The end.

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