Prozac Nation

             When I had first picked up "Prozac Nation" I was a little doubtful on weather I would like it or not. I went out on a limb, and decided to buy the book. I decided to start reading that night. I being a person who usually dislikes reading, and can't read more than a chapter at a time, couldn't but this book down for about 3 hours. 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 book down.
             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. (She) "wanted to have an abortion, that she'd gotten as far as the gynecologist's office and was all set to have a D and C, and that he physically restrained her to prevent the process. Later, when I told my mother about that conversation, she began to cry and said that the opposite was true" (p. 28).
             Upbringing is an important piece of your life, primarily the most important piece, but when you don't have a good up bringing; your future is pretty much ruined... This is how Elizabeth described hers "My parents are divorced, I grew up in a female-headed household, my mother was always unemployed or marginally employed, my father was always uninvolved or marginally involved in my life. There was never enough money for anything, my mom had to sue my dad for unpaid child support and unpaid medical bills, my dad eventually disappeared" (p. 33).
             Another 'cause' of her depression, was the
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