Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel

13 reviews

unavenusleyendo's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Blood, Self harm, Toxic friendship, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Vomit

queenmarshmallow's review

dark emotional fast-paced

2.0

This book would have been better organized as a chronological memoir instead of jumping around in time with some large sections of chapters in italics. Overall it’s not as sensational as I remember reading it in the 90s. Elizabeth sounds like a real pain to be around and  the people who try to be supportive of her aren’t the bad guys she makes them out to be. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Drug abuse

a_grady's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, and Miscarriage

pun1sher's review

4.0

I'm about to cry my eyes out because it's so weird to read something that seems so much like something I could write

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Mental illness, and Alcohol

mondovertigo's review

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, Self harm, and Medical content

Moderate: Blood, Adult/minor relationship, and Sexual content

Minor: Rape

froggybooks's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

2.75

ugh. it was insufferable. relatable but insufferable.

the end and the afterword were good. it was just so long and waffly. also surprise ipswich appearance.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Pedophilia, Medical content, Toxic friendship, Suicide attempt, Self harm, Mental illness, Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Sexual assault, Panic attacks/disorders, Drug use, Classism, Blood, Antisemitism, Toxic relationship, and Addiction

Moderate: Miscarriage

Minor: Pregnancy and Abortion

amandag's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-paced

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Miscarriage, Self harm, Suicide attempt, and Abortion

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Drug abuse, Addiction, and Drug use

daughterofcain's review

emotional funny sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Suicide attempt, Miscarriage, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

poisontree's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

omfg
this got me out of a month long slump and it’s probably because of the tone of her writing
there was a lot to relate to and wasnt super gruelling to read
i definitely understand the grouping of prozac nation, girl interrupted and the bell jar
will i ever get tired of the depressed white girl genre who knows
i think at times i didnt really know what was happening but just went with it, reminding myself it was all nonfiction 
i think the biggest thing for me is seeing similarities in my world
i feel like more than half the people in our generation would doubly relate to this
i found the fact that the last pages suddenly were about nirvana kinda funny but it made sense
i live for pop culture references and music references so i really liked reading this
thats all
from ur trusty neighbourhood camibug

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Drug abuse, Violence, Vomit, Sexual content, Self harm, Drug use, Cursing, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Alcoholism, and Addiction

slugmilk's review

challenging dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Alcoholism, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Drug use, Drug abuse, Chronic illness, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Vomit

Moderate: Blood, Gaslighting, Self harm, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Forced institutionalization, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Sexual content

Minor: Pregnancy and Miscarriage