“Sometimes I sense that I have lost an intensity of feeling along with the moments of lacerating despair, I have greedily swapped them for ordinary life. That may sound dull, but I tell you it is sweet. It is not caviar I crave, but clean sheets and hot soup.” DespairProzacAntidepressantsProzac Nation Book:Antidepressants Source: Antidepressants
“Exactly, what form this alteration has taken. I will never know. I don't feel sedated, jittery or drugged. I simply feel normal-as if I had been driving a car all these years with the parking brake on, and now it is off. I feel as if the real me has returned, perhaps all the way from childhood, where she lived before The Beast arrived.” ChildhoodProzacAntidepressantsProzac NationThe BeastAlteration Book:Antidepressants Source: Antidepressants
“...I am you might say, chemically altered.” AlteredProzacAntidepressantsProzac NationChemically Book:Antidepressants Source: Antidepressants
“I had a moment of what I can only call clearheadedness. The suffocating anxiety was gone, momentarily, and I felt a deep relief, a sense of sudden calm after eons of warfare inside my head. I had gotten so used to the noise that the quiet was unfamiliar. It was as if the evil beast that had been holding my head under water, trying to drown me, had suddenly let go.” DepressionWarfareUnfamiliarQuietnessProzacAntidepressantsProzac Nation Book:Antidepressants Source: Antidepressants