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Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish.

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
Oh, Ma, you’re looking at all the trees, and I’m not even in the forest.
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Forest Look Tree
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
I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Feeling Nation Prozac Something Wrong
In the meantime, I could withdraw to my room, could hide and sleep as if I were dead
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Meantime Room Rooms Sleep
Into every sunny life a little rain must fall.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Fall Little Rain Sunny
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
Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Alloe Instinct Side Try
It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people’s imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Imagination Interest People
In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Depression Literature Way
That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Depression Pain Purposeful Sad
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
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
It didn’t and doesn’t turn out well. There is no happy ending to the story of sorrow if you are born with a predilection for despair. The world is, after all, a coarse and brutal and cruel place. It’s only a matter of how long you can live with it.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Despair Long Predilection Sorrow
And I want out of this life on drugs.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Drug Happen Life Out
…if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Everything Feels Nothing Ultimately

Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish.

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