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I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong. Like all the drugs put together – the lithium, the Prozac, the desipramine, and Desyrel that I take to sleep at night – can no longer combat whatever it is that was wrong with me in the first place. I feel like a defective model.

I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong. Like all the drugs put together – the lithium, the Prozac, the desipramine, and Desyrel that I take to sleep at night – can no longer combat whatever it is that was wrong with me in the first place. I feel like a defective model.

Approximate author period: c. 1993 AD · modern

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Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Approximate author period: c. 1993 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Elizabeth Wurtzel: life dates 1967 to 2020. Wikidata Q442854, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q442854 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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