![]() She detailed the dark drag of depression that had engulfed her at the age of 10, prompted her first overdose at 11 and had her self-harming at 12. It was a sad and cruel shock to learn last week that she had died of cancer at just 52, when she was still processing the impact of the illness on her life and writing a sequel to the book that made her a sensation at 27.Īt 21, Wurtzel was one of the first patients to be prescribed Prozac and wrote in comical, luminescent prose about her multiple chemical dependencies – prescription or otherwise. “All I ever wanted to be was good,” she wrote, in her second memoir More, Now, Again in 2002. Wurtzel became famous by making a career from her emotions. ![]()
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