Title: Prozac diary
First published: 1998
Description: Today millions of people take Prozac, but Lauren Slater was one of the first. In this 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. And then 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 position and ultimately earns several degrees in psychology. Once lonely, she finds love with a man who adores her. Slater is wonderfully 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."
Subjects: Mental illness, Mentally ill, Fluoxetine, Chemotherapy, Biography, Case studies, Mentally ill, biography, Mental illness, treatment, Psychotropic drugs, Therapeutic use, Mental Disorders, Drug therapy, Antidepressive Agents
Places: United States
People: Lauren Slater
LC classification: RC464.S58 A3 1998