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Prozac Diary

von Lauren Slater

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In 1988, at age 26, Lauren Slater lived alone in a basement apartment in Cambridge, depressed, suicidal, unemployed. Ten years later, she is a psychologist running her own clinic, an award-winning writer, and happily married. The transformation in her life was brought about by Prozac. Prozac Diary is Lauren Slater's incisive account of a life restored to productivity, creativity, and love. When she wakes up one morning and finds that her demons no longer have a hold on her, Slater struggles with the strange state of being well after a lifetime of craziness. Yet this is no hymn to a miracle pharmaceutical. It is a frankly ambivalent quest for the truth of self behind an ongoing reliance on a drug. Slater also addresses Prozac's notorious "poop-out" effect and its devastating attack on her libido. This is the first memoir to reflect on long-term Prozac use, and reviewers agree that no one has written about Prozac with such beauty, honesty, and insight.… (mehr)

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I couldn't stand this book. I only finished it because it was a book club selection. (

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BookConcierge | Feb 9, 2016 |

I heard about this book on a Channel 2 program regarding depression. This is a memoir about Lauren, who suffers from depression all her life (she's 26 years old) and is later found to be OCD. She's also been bulimic/anorexic. She finds Prozac and he whole life changes dramatically but its an everchanging relationship with Prozac. Never 100%, but she stays on it for 10 years. She is extremely intelligent and is able to complete her Phd in Psychology in 2 years after being on Prozac for a couple years. Her writing style is disjointed and a little too flowery for me. (

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camplakejewel | Oct 3, 2013 |

I think this book was probably more interesting 12 years ago. I am a pharmacological refugee and on a personal level find tales like Slater’s interesting, but I can also tell you that unless you have tinkered with the chemicals in your brain, unless you have walked down this road, this mild, ethereal and at times random memoir may not have any resonance. As interested as I am in memoirs of people who struggle with mental illness and the drugs used to treat mental illness, there were times I found this book less than gripping. Read my entire review here: http://ireadeverything.com/prozac-diary-by-lauren-slater/ (

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oddbooks | Aug 30, 2010 |

Prozac Diary chronicles the life of 26-year-old Lauren Slater who became one of the first takers of a brand new drug, Prozac. She writes not so much about the actual drug (though she does talk about its side effects), but more about the consequences of shifting from an "illness-based "identity, to a "health-based" identity. Having dealt with mental illness for most of her life, this shift is both a welcome relief as well as well as a challenge - for who is she without the depression that's dominated her life? Slater describes her journey with humor, philosophical questions, and lyricism. However, like some memoirs about mental ilness, she does lapse into self-indulgence at times, but overall her writing is sensual, sharp, and often poetic. Engaging, candid, and occasionally briliant, Slater's book is an important contribution to the psychiatric memoir. (

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In 1988, at age 26, Lauren Slater lived alone in a basement apartment in Cambridge, depressed, suicidal, unemployed. Ten years later, she is a psychologist running her own clinic, an award-winning writer, and happily married. The transformation in her life was brought about by Prozac. Prozac Diary is Lauren Slater's incisive account of a life restored to productivity, creativity, and love. When she wakes up one morning and finds that her demons no longer have a hold on her, Slater struggles with the strange state of being well after a lifetime of craziness. Yet this is no hymn to a miracle pharmaceutical. It is a frankly ambivalent quest for the truth of self behind an ongoing reliance on a drug. Slater also addresses Prozac's notorious "poop-out" effect and its devastating attack on her libido. This is the first memoir to reflect on long-term Prozac use, and reviewers agree that no one has written about Prozac with such beauty, honesty, and insight.

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