Quotes by : Elizabeth Wurtzel

Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression.

That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.

That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the....

Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent

They have no idea what a bottomless pit of misery I am.

It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all....

But day after day of depression, the kind that doesn’t seem to merit carting me off to a hospital but....

I have studiously tried to avoid ever using the word 'madness' to describe my condition. Now and again,....

There are all these things my mother is good for that my father isn't, and all these things my father....

Some catastrophic moments invite clarity, explode in split moments: You smash your hand through a windowpane....