Editing Prozac Nation (section)

{{short description|Memoir by Elizabeth Wurtzel}}
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| author        = [[Elizabeth Wurtzel]]
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| country       = United States
| language      = English
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| genre         = Memoir
| publisher     = Riverhead Trade
| release_date  = 1994
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| pages         = 384 pages
| isbn          = 978-1-573-22512-0
| isbn_note     = first edition
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'''''Prozac Nation''''' is a [[memoir]] by American writer [[Elizabeth Wurtzel]] published in 1994. The book describes the author's experiences with [[atypical depression]],<ref>{{Cite book|title=Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America|last=Wurtzel|first=Elizabeth|publisher=Penguin Books|year=1994|location=New York|page=298|quote=The McLean people have recommended fluoxetine because they have diagnosed me with atypical depression.}}</ref> her own character failings and how she managed to live through particularly difficult periods while completing college and working as a writer. Prozac is a [[trade name]] for the [[antidepressant]] [[fluoxetine]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Kirn|first=Walter|title=For White Girls Who Have Considered Suicide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OOQCAAAAMBAJ&q=%22Prozac%20Nation%22%20Wurtzel&pg=PA50|newspaper=New York Magazine|date=September 5, 1994|page=50}}</ref> Wurtzel originally titled the book ''I Hate Myself and I Want To Die'' but her editor convinced her otherwise.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/i-hate-myself-and-want-to-die-169-v16n10/|title=I Hate Myself and I Want to Die|first1=Gabi|last1=Sifre|first2=Marion|last2=Ettlinger|date=1 October 2009}}</ref> It ultimately carried the subtitle ''Young and Depressed in America: A Memoir.''

The book was adapted into a feature film, ''[[Prozac Nation (film)|Prozac Nation]]'' (2001), starring [[Christina Ricci]].