Citas de Elizabeth Wurtzel

• Eso es todo lo que quiero en la vida: que este dolor parezca tener un propósito.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Depression, Pain, Being Sad

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.55, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Some friends don't understand this. They don't understand how desperate I am to have someone say, I love you and I support you just the way you are because you're wonderful just the way you are. They don't understand that I can't remember anyone ever saying that to me. I am so demanding and difficult for my friends because I want to crumble and fall apart before them so that they will love me even though I am no fun, lying in bed, crying all the time, not moving. Depression is all about If you loved me you would.

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  Depression, Fun, Lying

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• Eso es lo que pasa con la depresión: Un ser humano puede sobrevivir a casi cualquier cosa, siempre que vea el final a la vista. Pero la depresión es tan insidiosa, y se agrava a diario, que es imposible ver nunca el final. La niebla es como una jaula sin llave.

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  Depression, Keys, Sight

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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 of black wave.

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  Dream, Tired, Black

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• ...if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all.

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  Feels, Ifs

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.302, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You’re going to leave me, aren’t you? … You’ve had enough of me, haven’t you? You’re probably so tired of all this crying and all these moods, and I’ve got to tell you, so am I. So am I. Sometimes it seems like my mind has a mind of its own, like I just get hysterical, like it’s something I can’t control at all. And I don’t know what to do, and I feel so sorry for you because you don’t know what to do either. And I’m sure you’re going to leave me now.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Broken Heart, Sorry, Tired

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• If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking

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  Depression, Fighting, Sinking

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing.

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  Missing Someone, Always Trying, Long

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Depression is a lot like that: slowly, over the years, the data will accumulate in your heart and mind, a computer program for total negativity will build into your system, making life feel more and more unbearale. But you won't even notice it coming on, thinking that it is somehow normal, something about getter older, about turning eight or about turning twelve or turning fifteeen, and then one day you realize that your entire life is just awful, not worth living, a horror and a black blot on the white terrain of human existence. One morning you wake up afraid you are going to live.

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  Morning, Heart, Thinking

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• I mean, if you were to find a shattered mirror, find all the pieces, all the shards and all the tiny chips, and have whatever skill and patience it took to put all that broken glass back together so that it was complete once again, the restored mirror would still be spiderwebbed with cracks, it would still be a useless glued version of its former self, which could show only fragmented reflections of anyone looking into it. Some things are beyond repair. And that was me.

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  Mean, Reflection, Self

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• El divorcio nos ha enseñado a acostarnos con amigos, con enemigos y a actuar como si todo fuera perfectamente normal por la mañana.

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  Morning, Sleep, Divorce

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am so tired of the girl in the infirmary, I am so sick of the girl who cries wolf all the time - even though not one of those cries was ever a false alarm. Not one of my pleas was ever less than truly urgent because when it's all in your mind, there always IS a wolf.

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  Girl, Tired, Sick

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.299, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ...a veces deseaba atravesar un ventanal y que los fragmentos afilados y rotos me hicieran pedazos para poder verme como me sentía.

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  Suicide, Self Harm, Broken

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Even if I remember the first time perfectly, I don't remember the beginning at all. I mean: the beginning of addiction. It's hard to say when it becomes a problem; it sneaks up on you like a sun shower.

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  Mean, Addiction, Firsts

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2007). “More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• It is so hard to learn to put sadness in perspective so hard to understand that it is a feeling that comes in degrees, it can be a candle burning gently and harmlessly in your home, or it can be a full-fledged forest fire that destroy almost everything and is controlled by almost nothing. It can also be so much in-between

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  Depression, Home, Sadness

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.306, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I start to feel like I can't maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is.

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  Life, Stupid, Wish

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Soy la chica que se pierde en el espacio, la chica que desaparece siempre, que se desvanece y se aleja cada vez más en el fondo. Porque cada día que pasa me siento más y más invisible.

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  Girl, Space, Forever

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• How can you hide from what never goes away? --Heraclitus

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  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One of the terrible fallacies of contemporary psychotherapy is that if people would just say how they felt, a lot of problems could be solved.

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  People, Problem, Terrible

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.235, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The biggest problem that women have is being ambivalent about their own power, ... We should be comfortable with the idea of wielding power. We shouldn't feel that it detracts from our femininity.

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  Ideas, Wielding Power, Problem

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• But day after day of depression, the kind that doesn’t seem to merit carting me off to a hospital but allows me to sit here on this stoop in summer camp as if I were normal, day after day wearing down everybody who gets near me. My behavior seems, somehow, not acute enough for them to know what to do with me, though I’m just enough of a mess to be driving everyone around me crazy.

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  Summer, Crazy, Merit

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.66, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It doesn’t matter how many years go by, how much therapy I embark on, how much I try to achieve that elusive thing known as perspective, which is supposed to put all past wrongs into their rightful and diminished place, that happy place where all the talk is of lessons learned and inner peace. No one will ever understand the potency of my memories, which are so solid and vivid that I don’t need a psychiatrist to tell me they are driving me crazy. My subconscious has not buried them, my superego has not restrained them. They are front and center, they are going on right now.

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  Memories, Crazy, Past

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.81, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• El amor es más bien impotente y lamentable: Mi padre debió de decirme un millón de veces lo mucho que me quería, pero esa emoción -suponiendo que fuera real- apenas tuvo fuerza para contrarrestar los muchos otros actos de maldad que cometió contra mí. Contrariamente a las novelas románticas y a la mentalidad de que el amor lo vence todo, en la que incluso aquellos de nosotros que crecemos en una era de divorcios -en respuesta a algún instinto atávico- seguimos siendo educados para creer, el amor es siempre un producto y una víctima de las circunstancias. Es frágil y pequeño.

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  Growing Up, Father, Real

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• Me pareció muy interesante que ciertos tipos de mujeres inspiraran la imaginación de la gente, y todas ellas eran mujeres muy difíciles.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Imagination, Interesting, People

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• It's like Samson and Delilah: watch your back, because trouble could be the person you're sleeping with.

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  Fake People, Sleep, Watches

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