Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
In a typical mental health catch-22, the alienating nature of depression tends to keep its sufferers from finding their way to the… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
The measure of mindfulness, the touchstone for sanity in this society, is our level of productivity, our attention to responsibility, our ability… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
It doesn’t matter how many years go by, how much therapy I embark on, how much I try to achieve that elusive… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
The measure of our mindfulness, the touchstone for sanity in this society, is our level of productivity, our attention to responsibility, our… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
That's the thing I want to make clear about depression: It's got nothing at all to do with life. In the course… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“That’s the thing I want to make clear about depression: It’s got nothing at all to do with life. In the course… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“Forget about the scant hours in her brief life when Sylvia Plath was able to produce the works in Ariel. Forget about… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“The trouble is that when we get around to solutions, it always seems to come down to Prozac. Or Zoloft. Or Paxil.… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“...sometimes they almost made me feel glad that I had a few extra years to play my depression out with therapy and… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“That's the problem with reality, that's the fallacy of therapy: It assumes that you will have a series of revelations, or even… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“The atypically depressed are more likely to be the walking wounded, people like me who are quite functional, whose lives proceed almost… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Belief is a good thing in principle, but an annoying thing in human beings. — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share
I can see that I imagine all kinds of rejection that never happens. I can see that I beg and plead for love that… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share
“...if you ask anyone in the throes of depression how he got there, to pin down the turning point, he'll never know. There is… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share
I want to explain how exhausted I am. Even in my dreams. How I wake up tired. How I’m being drowned by some kind… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share
Its the people you are close to, the ones who love you, the ones who have seen your heart, who have touched your soul… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share
if only my whole life could be words and music, if only everything else could slip away. — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share
What I would do to be Alice climbing through the looking glass, taking one of those pills that makes you small ... so small.… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share
Divorce has taught us how to sleep with friends, sleep with enemies, and then act like its all perfectly normal in the morning. — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share
Just as our parents quieted us when we were noisy by putting us in front of the television set, maybe we're now learning to… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share
I am sick of the girl who cries 'wolf' all the time. Even though not one of those cries was ever a false alarm — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share
I'm lost in a loneliness that feels like forever ... like a solitude that never goes away. — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share
It's the people you are close to, the ones who love you, theo nes who have seen your heart, who have touched your soul-… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share
“When you do drugs, you count like a chemist: The numbers are wild, the formulas are easy. Then, when you try to get clean,… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share
Everything's plastic, we're all going to die sooner or later, so what does it matter. — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share
