Prozac Diary (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Lauren Slater | knygos.lt

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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 maketo living "normal life."
Today millions of people take Prozac, but Lauren Slater wasone of the first. In this rich and beautifully written memoir, she 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. Andthen 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 positionand ultimately earns several degrees in psychology. Once lonely, she finds love with a man who adores her. Slater iswonderfully 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 aboutWelcome 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. Prozac Diary is a wonderfully written reportfrom inside a decade on Prozac, and an original writer's acute observations on the challenges of living modern life. "From the Hardcover edition."