Sometimes, I get so consumed by depression that it is hard to believe that the whole world doesn't stop and suffer with… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“I know by now, only too well, that you can never get away from yourself because you never go away.” — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
What little faith I had just died, and now its taking me under with it. — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression. — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Divorce has taught us how to sleep with friends, sleep with enemies, and then act like its all perfectly normal in the… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Everything's plastic, we're all going to die sooner or later, so what does it matter. — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
We are all born fallen, and there is nothing we can do to overcome the original sin! — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it's the worst. — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Imagine only knowing that the sun is shining because you feel the ache of its awful heat and not because you know… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
It seemed like this was one big Prozac nation, one big mess of malaise. Perhaps the next time half a million people… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Getting help for substance abuse can be reduced to the deceptively simple focus of ‘keeping away from the dope.’ But what does… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
In my case, I was not frightened in the least bit at the thought that I might live because I was certain,… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
People talk about the way disembodied spirits roam the world with no place to park themselves, but all I can think is… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that I was forced to withdraw into depression because it was the only rightful protest I could throw in… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
But day after day of depression, the kind that doesn’t seem to merit carting me off to a hospital but allows me… — 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
“Some catastrophic moments invite clarity, explode in split moments: You smash your hand through a windowpane and then there is blood and… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Depression is a lot like that: slowly, over the years, the data will accumulate in your heart and mind, a computer program… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Pain or not, I would most likely walk around in a suicidal reverie the rest of my life, never actually doing anything… — 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
“And I know, knew for sure, with an absolute certainty, that this is rock bottom, this what the worst possible thing feels… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
I know I can do so much more than this, I know that I could be a life force, could love with… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
It's like I'm frozen, while the whole world is still going on around me. — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Iv invented a monster and now its overtaking me. This is what iv come to and this is what I will be… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
People who think that Sylvia Plath was a poor, sensitive poet are not getting that she had great amounts of ambition and… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
I have studiously tried to avoid ever using the word 'madness' to describe my condition. Now and again, the word slips out,… — 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
“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
“Madness is too glamorous a term to convey what happens to most people who are losing their minds. That word is too… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“Depression gave me more then just a brooding introspection. It gave me humor, it gave me a certain what-a-fuck-up-I-am shtick to play… — 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
