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I come from a family of screamers. If they are trying to express any emotion or idea beyond pass the salt, it comes in shrieks.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

My God, I could raise a family of six children and hold down a full-time job with all the energy I expend on depression!
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Children Energy Job
It’s being a grown up, which I never figured out how to do, scrubbing the tub, and remembering to eat and shampoo my hair. It’s the basics: I can write a whole book, but I cannot handle the basics.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Book Figure Hair Remember Write
And I want out of this life on drugs.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Drug Happen Life Out
Oh, Ma, you’re looking at all the trees, and I’m not even in the forest.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Forest Look Tree
…if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Everything Feels Nothing Ultimately
And she keeps saying, how can you do this to me? And i want to scream, what do you mean, how can I do this to you? Aren’t we confusing our pronouns here? The question, really, is How could I do this to myself?
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Confusing Keep Mean Need
The measure of mindfulness, the touchstone for sanity in this society, is our level of productivity, our attention to responsibility, our ability to plain and simple hold down a job.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Job Responsibility Simple
But just as a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing, a little bit of energy, in the hands of someone hell-bent on suicide, is a very dangerous thing.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Hand Someone Suicidal Suicide
That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Depression Pain Purposeful Sad
My life’s actually been quite dull; it’s not all that glamorous.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Actually Dull Glamorous Life
Into every sunny life a little rain must fall.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Fall Little Rain Sunny
My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Imagination Passion People Surprise
I come from a family of screamers. If they are trying to express any emotion or idea beyond pass the salt, it comes in shrieks.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Beyong Idea Salt Try
In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Depression Literature Way
Am I worried people will say I’m repeating myself? Sure. One thought I had was to publish it as a novel but eventually I just decided to do what I wanted to do.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Eventually Literature People Worry
I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Feeling Nation Prozac Something Wrong

I come from a family of screamers. If they are trying to express any emotion or idea beyond pass the salt, it comes in shrieks.

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