prozac nation

[ORBITAL BEBOP]

Hello,

Im sure many of you have seen this movie with Christina Ricci, but I just saw it today.

I dont think she had depression, I think she was bipolar with her prolific writing, hypersexuality, etc so Prozac would not have been a good drug for her.

And was the slant of the movie ppl should take meds or not?

I think Psych docs were shown in a positive light though. This is a huge improvement.
Any input??

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[Triathlon]

Hello,

Im sure many of you have seen this movie with Christina Ricci, but I just saw it today.

I dont think she had depression, I think she was bipolar with her prolific writing, hypersexuality, etc so Prozac would not have been a good drug for her.

And was the slant of the movie ppl should take meds or not?

I think Psych docs were shown in a positive light though. This is a huge improvement.
Any input??

I don't know, Prozac sounds like a pretty good treatment. Not the only treatment but an adjunct. (Hypersexuality)

 

[ORBITAL BEBOP]

Ok, I meant more of has anyone seen the movie and has any input? The diagnosis of bipolar never is mentioned, altho depression is.

If no one has seen it, that is ok.

 

[Smilemaker100]

Hello,

Im sure many of you have seen this movie with Christina Ricci, but I just saw it today.

I dont think she had depression, I think she was bipolar with her prolific writing, hypersexuality, etc so Prozac would not have been a good drug for her.

And was the slant of the movie ppl should take meds or not?

I think Psych docs were shown in a positive light though. This is a huge improvement.
Any input??

I haven't seen the movie but I read the book which it is based on a number of years ago. Sometimes, movies omit a lot of details from the books they were based on. The book is entitled "Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America" and was a memoir written by Elizabeth Wurtzel. It was a New York Times Bestseller when it was published in 1994. I would rank the book as one of the great classics of depression literature like Catcher in the Rye and The Bell Jar (the latter being my favorite- I am a big fan of Sylvia Plath's poetry).

I just looked at the Epilogue section of my paperback copy of the book. You are right. Bipolar was mentioned as a possible diagnosis by her doctor. It says that she was on Prozac and Lithium. Here is a part of the Epilogue (written in 1995):

" When I got back to Cambridge, Dr Sterling put me on Lithium, both to augment the effects of Prozac and to even out some extreme mood swings. Regardless of my diagnosis of atypical depression, she was starting to think I was maybe cyclothymic or manic-depressive after all, going from revelry one day to suicidal gestures the next.

I stopped taking Desyrel once I started on Lithium, but all my attempts to lower my Prozac dose have resulted in an onset of the same old symptoms. I have occasionally tried to go off Lithium altogether, because it is a draining, tiring, drug to take, but those attempts to cut it out inevitably lead to scenes like the one that found me spilled across my bathroom and wrecked out in tears and black chiffon after we'd had that huge party at our house. "

 

[ORBITAL BEBOP]

Thanks for the info!! It is very helpful.

 

[jujube]

I read the book (haven't seen the movie). I think Elizabeth Wurtzel is a Borderline. Just my 2 cents. She went on to write another memoir describing her drug addiction, failed relationships, self-cutting, more impulsive behavior, etc.