The film is based on the best-selling novel and real events that took place before the antidepressants became popular in the mid-1980s. Describes a teenage woman, Elizabeth "Lizzie" Woodsellreceives a journalism scholarship to attend Harvard University. Raised by her divorced mother, Mrs. Wurtzel, since she was 2 years old , she misses her father and feels poor and depressed from a working-class family. During her first year of college, she lives with a roommate, Ruby, and is sexually enlightened with Noah Her article in the Crimson newspaper local column was honored by Rolling stone . Until Lizzie turns into sex and substance abuse while dating Rafe, her existential crisis and increased depression hurt friends who love her and her mother. Mrs Wurtzel sends her to Dr. Stirlingfor expensive psychiatric treatment, despite having trouble paying for her medicine and psychotherapy. After a long battle with antidepressants and suicide attempts, Lizzie's condition stabilized and adjusted to the real world on her path to becoming a successful journalist.
Prozac Nation movie plot
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Extended Reading
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[Elizabeth has been awake for days, writing obsessively]
Noah: I don't know how to say this to you, all right? But you are starting to smell.
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Noah: [looking at the writing Elizabeth is doing after being awake for days] This is just scribbling.