Victoria's Book Review: Mental Illness and Women Writers - Girl, Interrupted & Prozac Nation
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ก.ย. 2017
- In this video, I look at two key works from women writers on mental illness and depression - Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel and Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen.
Not only were these works forerunners to contemporary discussions on depression and treatment, but they also were published in the 1990s, an era when women writers and women's voices were at the forefront of cultural discussions.
I haven't read Girl, Interrupted or seen the film, but I did read and loved Prozac Nation. Like you, Prozac nation has had an influence on my writing as well. I've been on Prozac and have been writing about my depression. At first, I felt my story was too similar to Elizabeth Wurtzel's, but others convinced me my story is different. I've been working on my memoir for over a year now.
I recently read a mental illness memoir called Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression by Meri Nana-Ama Danquah. That was a goo done, too.
Jamie Ghione I don't know that book so I'll have a look. Thank you
Hey, how is that memoir going? :)
An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield... I've read them all because I've lived it. I also read B*tch by Elizabeth Wurtzel as well. I loved Virgin Suicides and White Oleander. I read Prozac Nation and Girl, Interrupted pretty much around the same time as the others mentioned. Both Patty Duke and Carrie Fisher also had good books detailing their manic depression.
it's pronounced "McClain" among the people in Massachusetts, that's why I didn't get what hospital she said the first time.
I haven't read either book the I saw them both as movies before I knew they were taken from books. Girl interrupted the movie if it is close to the book isn't very good representation of bpd. I really found I resonated more with Angelina Jolie and I have bpd. I wish some one would have warned me about prozac nation I don't know how close it is to the book but your first words describing it seems like it was fairly close. Having BPD and watching this movie thinking it was about depression alone was hurtful and jarring. I felt like I was reliving my childhood in slow motion. I am sorry but having bpd and knowing all about it's symptoms this character is very high on the bpd spectrum. I didn't hate the character I could feel every ounce of her pain and suffering those without this disoder have know idea the suffering we go through. We are made out to be like monsters we are traumatized human beings.
Which one do you think compares best with The Bell Jar?
I love Prozac nation
Same!
@@VictoriasBookReviews The best parts of the book aren't about Wurtzel's life at Harvard. It's when she writes about growing up on the Upper West Side, feeling different from her peers, and her time in Dallas.
I can't get Prozac Nation nowhere in Poland :(
Please please check out loud in the house of my self by stacy pershall