Word: prozac
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...totally wasted. Then I called this boy, and I was like, "I'm so depressed. Wanna fuck?" Then I hung out in Adams House with the other cool, depressed Lit majors. Then I OD'd and my friends had to take me to Stillman. Then I started taking Prozac and things were...
...mortality by talking of "passing away" or going to "the Great Dugout in the Sky" (while doctors, who have to deal with it daily, refer, even more coolly, to "coding" or "circling the drain"). Others try to romanticize it as the great escape, the best anesthetic outside of Prozac. Those who cannot countenance any hope in the world find it the ultimate (indeed!) confirmation of their grimmest fears. Death, after all, is the only reality that never lets you down. Yet that too can be an escape, a projection of our fantasies upon the dark unknown. Keats, who admitted...
Moore uses a similar mixture of prankishness, populism and deadpan naivete on TV Nation. The show, which features four correspondents in addition to Moore, covers topics ranging from AIDS profiteering to pets on Prozac. In one of the series' typical segments, Moore stands outside the offices of various corporate chiefs and uses a megaphone to ask them to come down and perform simple tasks their employees carry out every day. Louis Gerstner of IBM is challenged to format a computer disk; he doesn't respond. But Ford's Alex Trotman does agree to change the oil in a jeep. After...
...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...