Prozac Nation Themes

In the article, “High Anxiety”, the author, Sandra Long Weaver, analyzes the recent spike in anxiety and depression among college students. Weaver explains that the main problem students are facing when they enter college is anxiety and from that they suffer from depression. She explains that young adults are more aware of life events that affect them such as the job prospect. She explains how increased academic standards and parent involvement contributes to the immense rise of these disorders among college students In a student survey she states that over 50% of students suffer from anxiety because of the academic struggles.

Eventually, she enrolled as a nurse at Middlesex Hospital and attended lectures given to the male student doctors. This lasted only a few months, as the students complained about her attendance when she started to outshine them in lectures. However, they didn’t stop her, she continued to persevere. This is an example of the attitude barriers that Garrett Anderson had to overcome in order to achieve her goal, as women, again as stated before, were often held back due to the arrangement in society. Elizabeth worked extremely hard to work through all the negative aspect that came along with achieving this profession; it was her drive and ambition that sailed her through.

Elizabeth’s character was a mystery to most people at the time she inherited the throne. She had learned to keep her own council, control her emotions, and always behaved cautiously, thus being able to disprove all rumors about her. Always dignified and stately, she could be vain, willful, dictatorial, temperamental, and imperious. She had courage, both in her decisions, and in the face of danger. Possessing an innate of humanity, she was not normally cruel, unlike most rulers of her day. Most regarded her to be unusually tolerant in that age of religious conflict. She saw herself as one who was always honest and honorable, who

I decided to do my discussion on a woman named Alexandra Lewicke, who suffered from severe depression and self-harm disorder. She was diagnosed as a teenager, when she was a junior in high school. She was constantly bullied by others and her grades were suffering immensely. She had to be admitted to the hospital twice. She had believed that her depression was caused by all of the negative things around her, but when she moved away and began college, she realized that wasn’t the case.Despite having found wonderful new friends, a loving boyfriend, and having perfect grades, Alexandra still had the dark shadow of depression in the back of her mind. Her feelings got worse and she contemplated suicide.She knew she needed help, and so her close friends

Title Name Institution North Country and Boys in the Hood North County. The film start in 1989 when Josey Aims together with her children moves out of her abusive husbands, to live with her parents. Josey’s Hank thinks that she is promiscuous including the towns people to.

Elizabeth’s inspiration and perseverance are extremely strong, no matter the obstacle; she keeps trying to get what she deserves. On page 1, Sylvie raises the question of why it is her out of all the children that is going on the trip. Elizabeth responds with “Yer the smartest, and because yer a woman”. This displays the level and deepness of her thoughts. Elizabeth wants Sylvie to do some reflection on the current situation at home. As they step out of the house and on their way to town, that was the passion, inspiration and perseverance, that I had acquired. I had always dreamt to be on the track and field team, and I would not stop until I was. I ran and ran but did not make it in grades 4 and 5, but finally as a result of my hard training and perseverance, I acquired a position on the team. I ran through grades 6 and 7, but during a meet in grade 7, the inevitable happened-I had dislocated my right leg. This resulted in a hairline fracture on my hip bone. Any type of movement would cause a sharp pain to shoot down my leg, I felt as if everything that involves being physically active was over. Similarly, Elizabeth did not acquire the respect she

One factor Elizabeth had to face, which was seen as a huge disadvantage, was her gender. This was because the society was very patriarchal, male dominated, meaning that she was seen as week and less capable of being a good leader. This was a problem for Elizabeth as she had to do more to prove that she could be a good leader. This leads onto the fact that her sister Mary wasn’t a good leader so therefore there were low expectations of Elizabeth, This also meant Elizabeth had a lot to prove in order to be a good leader.

In this paragraph, I will be presenting a counter argument as if antidepressants are really helping our culture. I will be using Robert Whitaker's point of view of how our society is overmedicating mental illness. I am using Whitaker as source of information because source is well-written and organized. Robert Whitaker is a journalist and author of Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America. Whitaker states that antidepressants are overprescribed in America, harming those who do not need them. In fact, Researchers have proven that using medical substance don't improve behaviors. In the long run, using some sort of antidepressant can worsen the disease. Whitaker quotes "If 'wonder drugs'

Throughout the essay I stated the connections between Suzy and Sam. I realized as I was writing this paper and as i read the screenplay that the connections these two young people had are connections adults look for throughout their life. The types of connections they shared are connections people look for in love and marriage. The actions in this screenplay are actual things that happen in the world and people’s day to day lives. This Wes Anderson screenplay can relate to so many people’s lives and real love situations that the world goes through. Not just young people but older adults as

The novel as a whole provides the reader with a vivid description and clarification of what it was like growing up as a child in the 90’s. Lizzie’s life is a complete mess her parents have been divorced since she was a child, and she continues to suffer depression, where she is emotionally and psychologically unstable. Lizzie life is out of control, her parents are divorced, and she is suffering from depression, which is a stressor in her relationship with her mother. Nevertheless, Lizzie’s form of depression is rare, and unheard of at the time, hence, creating an arduous amount of work for her caretakers. As soon as her college career begins at She enrolls at Harvard University, she (and) works to the best of her ability in order to impress her mother and make spending their money worthwhile. However, rather than doing well in school, she falls into an even deeper depression, often finding herself in hospital beds, therapist's offices with Dr. Sterling, or even face down on the floor of her dorm room next to random guys, cigarette butts and empty bottles. The majority of the time, Lizzie parties with friends, self-medicates and begins to lose her self worth. According to the text, “That night we talked and talked, babbled in Ecstasy incoherently until we could see the sun beginning to peek through the colored glass” (Wurtzel 144). Evidently, due to Lizzie’s unique mental state, she begins to self-medicate throughout the course of the novel. For example, she overdoses on Mellaril, a drug that helps her cope with her depression, and although it is prescribed, she relies upon it. More importantly, she becomes dependent upon cocaine, and ecstasy, both of which are illegal and severely harming drugs DANGEROUS. However, due to the almost immediate high these drugs produce for Lizzie, she can escape from any feeling of uncertainty or

For the first semester of her studies at Rawlings, Lizet fails to cope with the challenges properly and finds herself isolated from her peers and failing her classes. The relatively poor work of the administration on the diversity board and their ice cream socials left her feeling like she was without dependable support from the college, although she consciously decided to turn a blind eye to the academic resources available to her for the first few months. Once she finally realized how badly she was struggling and the risk her academic career was put in, Lizet threw herself into improving her grades but continued to allow her social life to struggle. The misunderstandings her peers had of the more Latina aspects of herself ranging from her word choices to what temperature she straightened her hair at created a bridge that Lizet further burned with volatile behavior.

However, the opening statement causes the reader to believe that teenagers do need treatment for their extreme moodiness. This, in turn, compels the reader to agree with what Dr. Chung has to say about screening teenagers. Thus, creating an automatic bias, and causing the reader not pay much attention to what Allen Frances has to argue about not getting screened. Though, the article, as a whole, is well constructed, with two points of view to give the reader reasons to explore on their own. The article is organized in a way that provides the reader with an abundance of information and opinions that counteract each other to create a neutral feel throughout the reading. There is a summary of what depression within teens is, and a brief summary of what both sides disclose. This organization of information was fairly effective, but I feel that further analysis was required to conclude the article, as it ends off still describing Dr. Frances’

Having parents that are divorced is nothing something made up and it affects kids every day just like how it affected Cadence. “ It tasted like salt and failure. The bright red shame of being unloved soaked the grass in front of our house, the bricks of the path, the steps to the porch. My heart spasmed among the peonies like a trout” (Lockhart 23). Cadence felt unloved, she felt like it was her fault of being a failure as a daughter that her father left them, she felt humiliated. Emily Lockhart teaches us something,in a fictional book i might add, that can help teach us something about reality. That in reality kids with divorced parents are hurt, and they frequently blame themselves.

I focused on the symbolic element of the poem, because I liked the presentation and how it flowed. It made me think about how far we’ve come in this country. I believe that Elizabeth draws the reader into the poem just I was drawn, by suggesting that we as a nation that was literally built off the labor of

Finally, Elizabeth is a strong character. Even though Lester was stubborn and demanding she still loved him and her children. She could not bare to live a single day without them, by her side although they were old enough to be on their own. She was strong enough to leave them all behind except for Sylvie just once as a test for Lester; he passed. “”Ma” I said. She turned and looked at me. “Ma. Why are we leavin’?” she did not answer right away. It crossed my mind she might not be sure of the reason herself. This was a frightening thought. But apparently she knew. “I plans t’do some thinkin’,” she said.”” (Wilson108). Her strong character was manifest once she arrived home after her three day trip away from home. “”I watched my mother. During the laughter, I could see her retreat for a minute behind her eyes, the expressionless, lifeless, beaten. Then she took a deep breath and look at him directly, squarely, with no fear in her face. Pain, yes, but no fear.”” (Wilson115) Her reaction towards the way Lester reacted once she got home was completely unexpected, she finally stood up to him, and she was strong enough to look him in the eye. Therefore Elizabeth is