No scenes are described in too much depth, but some mature topics are alluded to. While I didn’t find anything too graphic, Wurtzel tends to go on alcohol and sex binges to deal with her depression, and some of those scenes could be construed as disturbing. Just a warning, Prozac Nation is definitely recommended for readers at least 16 years of age or older. Like I said before, Prozac Nation was an amusing read, and it has been experiencing success 15 plus years since its original publication, but I don’t think it will ever merit itself as a classic work of literature. As a huge fan of The Bell Jar author, I can say that anyone expecting the likes of a modern day Plath will be disappointed. I read a couple reviews on Prozac Nation before I actually read the book and a few people compared Wurtzel to the likes of Sylvia Plath.

It may have been a little whiny at some points, but it offered an understanding to the world of depression that my generation hears about so frequently in movies, music, and other books, but is rarely portrayed on a purely realistic level. While Wurtzel is a very talented writer and the book did have some interesting parts, at times it dragged on and seemed overly bemoaning. (Sept.Prozac Nation is a memoir by Elizabeth Wurtzel recounting her tales with major depression and her journey from adolescence to adulthood, while dealing with various therapists and treatments for her mental instabilities. First serial to Vogue, Esquire and Mouth2Mouth. By turns emotionally powerful and tiresomely solipsistic, her book straddles the line between an absorbing self-portrait and a coy bid for public attention. The title is misleading, for Wurtzel skimps on sociological analysis and remains too self-involved to justify her contention that depression is endemic to her generation. Here she unsparingly details her therapists, hospitalizations, binges of sex and drug use and the paralyzing spells of depression which afflicted her in high school and as a Harvard undergraduate and culminated in a suicide attempt and ultimate diagnosis of atypical depression, a severe, episodic psychological disorder. The onset of puberty, she recalls, also marked the onset of recurrent bouts of acute depression, sending her spiraling into episodes of catatonic despair, masochism and hysterical crying. After her parents' acrimonious divorce, Wurtzel was raised by her mother on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Twenty-six-year-old Wurtzel, a former critic of popular music for New York and the New Yorker, recounts in this luridly intimate memoir the 10 years of chronic, debilitating depression that preceded her treatment with Prozac in 1990.

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