Talk:Prozac Nation (book)

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[edit] response to WTC controversy

I think it might be good to have more in this article about the response to Wurtzel's comments on the collapse of the World Trade Center.

At the time she made the comments, she was doing an interview on her book More, Now, Again, about her addiction to Ritalin and cocaine. I understand that a person who is addicted to drugs may be desensitised to the things which most of us find traumatic - such as loss of your own limbs, or of all of your close family, or the collapse of tall buildings with thousands of people in it. The only thing that's really traumatic to an advanced drug addict is not being able to get their next fix. And perhaps that's the point that Elizabeth Wurtzel was trying to make.

To me, this seems screamingly obvious - however, I can't find any evidence that anyone else has talked about it in a well reputed publication. Perhaps I'm not looking hard enough, but we can't put it in the article, due to the WP:NOR policy, until someone does find some evidence. That's why I'd like to see more about the response to the controversy, and how the media thinks it may have influenced the decision to shelve the film.

To put it into perspective, there are other reported reasons for shelving the film besides the WTC comments. So far, the article makes no mention of this. Squashy 10:24, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] typical or atypical

From this article we have 'Wurtzel's mental illness is known as atypical depression, which has not often been written about in the first person narrative.', but on the atypical depression page it says that atypical depression is, despite its name, the most common form of depression at 40% of the total. sbandrews (t) 08:07, 18 May 2008 (UTC)