When her doctor prescribed Ritalin to boost the effects of her antidepression medication, Elizabeth jumped. All health care practitioners should read this book, and many will read it in one sitting. It is an autobiographical account—or maybe not—that Slater characterize as follows: "When all is said and done, there's only one kind of memoir I can see to write, and that's a slippery, playful, impish, exasperating text, shaped, if it could be, like a question mark." Someone here on Goodreads named Catherine wrote that I don't freaking give a damn that she appeared whiny and self absorbed to everyone else; the nature of depression and addiction lends itself to introspection that is hard to avoid Thank you Catherine Fing brilliant I couldn't figure out how to defend this writing that I have loved for years while at the same time admitting that it at times is whiny and self absorbed It may be whiny and self absorbed but it is sooooo real and captivating and gritty When I say gritty the thing I remember most about this book is the image of her on ritalin awake for days on end in her apartment that she called a treehouse getting so obsessive compulsive and focused and insane that she felt compelled to pull out her leg hairs with tweezersI first read Prozac... (Sign in to see more), Gina Elizabeth Wurtzel hits rock bottom, gets clean, uses again, and finally gains control over her drug and her life. Or I feel I have epilepsy. It is also a love story: How Wurtzel managed to break free of her relationship with Ritalin and learned to love life, and herself, is at the heart of this ultimately uplifting memoir that no reader will soon forget. They are the sweetness in the days that have none. always need more. Within weeks, she was grinding up the pills and snorting them for a greater effect. For those interested in the concept of lying, a recently published book by Jeremy Campbell entitled The Liar's Tale: A History of Falsehood (6) will be of interest. Copyright 2020 CELA. Errors on Slater's part? For example: "That was the night I started to steal. As honest as a confession and as heartfelt as a prayer,More, Now, Againrecounts a courageous fight back to a life worth living. Kaysen received no shortage of advice. After all, if I were making the whole thing up—and I'm not saying I'm making the whole thing up—but if I were, I would be doing it not to create a character as a novelist does, but, instead, to create a metaphor that conveys the real person I am.". Supposing I simply feel like an epileptic, a spastic person, one with a shivering brain; supposing I have chosen epilepsy because it is the most accurate conduit to convey my psyche to you? Terminology that Wurtzel does not use that describes her self-portrayal include entitled, narcissistic, self-centered, self-destructive, and a user, more of people than of drugs. ~ Free PDF Menipulation A Memoir Of Addiction And Recovery ~ Uploaded By James Patterson, for a memoir about life as an addict this book very quickly wraps up the whole addiction thing and becomes basically hundreds of pages of bragging the author is quite full of herself one entire section is just descriptions of her wonderful house

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