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Before Wurtzel, memoirs about mental illness were often clinical or cautionary. Prozac Nation changed the game by being:

Before "sad girl" aesthetics or TikTok vent-posts, there was Wurtzel. She gave us permission to be unlikable, difficult, and brutally honest about the ugliness of the human mind. The Medicalization of Sadness:

“I don’t know,” she said. “But I showed up.”

And in that moment, for Lily, that was the most honest thing she’d said in months.

She closed the laptop.