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Today millions
of people take Prozac, but Lauren Slater was one of the first.
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- The author of the acclaimed Welcome
to My Country describes in this provocative and funny memoir
the ups and downs of living on Prozac for ten years, and the
strange adjustments she had to make to living "normal life."
by Lauren Slater
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- In this rich and beautifully written
memoir, author describes what it's like to spend most of your
life feeling crazy--and then to wake up one day and find yourself
in the strange state of feeling well.
- And then to face the challenge
of creating a whole new life.
- Once inhibited, Slater becomes
spontaneous.
- Once terrified of maintaining a
job, she accepts a teaching position and ultimately earns several
degrees in psychology.
- Once lonely, she finds love with
a man who adores her.
- Slater is wonderfully thoughtful
and articulate about all of these changes, and also about the
downside of taking Prozac: such matters as dependency, sexual
dysfunction, and Prozac "poop-out."
"The beauty of Lauren Slater's
prose is shocking," said Newsday about Welcome to My Country,
and Slater's remarkable gifts as a writer are present here in
sentences that are like elegant darts, hitting at the center
of the deepest human feelings.
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Prozac Diary is a wonderfully
written report from inside a decade on Prozac, and an original
writer's acute observations on the challenges of living modern
life.
View An Exerpt From "Prozac Diary"
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