Word: prozac
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some cases, we've uncovered the chemistry of personality by changing it. Consider the architect who takes Prozac for depression and finds that not only are his symptoms gone, but so is a lifelong passion for hardcore porn. "The medication redefined what was essential and what was contingent about his own personality," writes his psychiatrist Peter Kramer in Listening to Prozac. Or consider the hyperactive child who takes Ritalin and discovers that now other kids will play with him. Social acceptance in a pill. Shyness, too, may succumb to a chemical cure. Research suggests that 1 in 5 babies...
...Kaysen becomes famous for writing a confessional book, it is her reticence that is most striking. She avoids public-policy debates about Prozac and mental-health coverage. "People think I'm a psychology expert, but I'm not," she says. "I'm a writer." Despite an appearance on Oprah, she has no intention of becoming a poster child for mental illness. "I don't believe I have any obligation to let people into my private life," she says. This may seem like a curious attitude for someone who has made public her years in a mental hospital, but even...
...Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration have declared Prozac safe and effective in the treatment of bulimia...
...Sylvia Plath were alive today, she would be a venerable 61 years old. (Given the shift in the times, she also might be on Prozac.) But the poet who dies young is remembered in her youthful glory, a literary James Dean. Attention to Plath's life has been paid in inverse proportion to its brevity: five exhaustive biographies have been written about her. In addition, everyone who ever had lunch with Plath has seemingly felt compelled to write a memoir...
...midterm scene got your down? Need a fast, inexpensive way to relieve some stress? Lose the Prozac, drop the T'ai Chi classes and pick up the pastime that's got the whole university buzzing with coffeetalk .Try knitting...