But Wurtzel’s writing was never designed or able to be drily analytical – her default mode was one of what has come to be called, not entirely negatively, oversharing. Wurtzel’s first book took readers to the heart of its author’s seismic depression and its fallout of binges and broken relationships it also documented the early days of an antidepressant revolution, in which sufferers glimpsed the possible benefits of pharmaceutical intervention. Instead, I made a career out of my emotions.” It was a career that saw the author, who has died of breast cancer at the age of 52, catapulted to prominence in 1994 with her memoir Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America. “I was born with a mind that is compromised by preternatural unhappiness,” wrote Elizabeth Wurtzel in 2013, “and I might have died very young or done very little.
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