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More, Now, Again – A Memoir of Addiction 3 csillagozás
Elizabeth Wurtzel published her memoir of depression, Prozac Nation, to astonishing literary acclaim. A cultural phenomenon by age twenty-six, she had fame, money, respecteverything she had always wanted except that one, true thing: happiness.
For all of her professional success, Wurtzel felt like a failure. She had lost friends and lovers, every magazine job she'd held, and way too much weight. She couldn't write, and her second book was past due. But when her doctor prescribed Ritalin to help her focus-and boost the effects of her antidepressants – Wurtzel was spared. The Ritalin worked. And worked. The pills became her sugar…the sweetness in the days that have none. Soon she began grinding up the Ritalin and snorting it. Then came the cocaine, then more Ritalin, then more cocaine. Then I need more. I always need more. For all of my life I have needed more…
More, Now, Again is the brutally honest, often painful account of Wurtzel's descent into drug addiction. It… (tovább)
Eredeti megjelenés éve: 2000
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When nothing else happens all day, when all there is to show for it is some work I’ve done or an okay movie I’ve seen, when it’s been nothing special, they are my treat.
They used to be a treat. Late at night, they were something to look forward to. I could tell myself: I can still get high. I would tell myself: This is the sugar in my bowl.
But now it’s my life. Pills are my everything. At the end of the day, other people ask themselves: Is this all there is? I don’t want to wait for the answer. I’m not stupid. I don’t wait to see if today will be better than yesterday, because I already know. And these pills are deep inside of me.
What person could ever get this close? Who would want to?
And I swear to you, and I don’t care how this sounds, I think it’s love. If you don’t understand, you don’t know what love is.
The simplest definition of addiction is when you want to
stop doing something and can’t.
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