More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction -

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Simon & Schuster

2002

336 páginas

11h 12m

ISBN-10: 0743223314

Elizabeth Wurtzel published her memoir of depression, Prozac Nation, to astonishing literary acclaim. A cultural phenomenon by age twenty-six, she had fame, money, respecteverything she had always wanted except that one, true thing: happiness.

For all of her professional success, Wurtzel felt like a failure. She had lost friends and lovers, every magazine job she'd held, and way too much weight. She couldn't write, and her second book was past due. But when her doctor prescribed Ritalin to help her focus-and boost the effects of her antidepressants -- Wurtzel was spared. The Ritalin worked. And worked. The pills became her "sugar...the sweetness in the days that have none." Soon she began grinding up the Ritalin and snorting it. "Then came the cocaine, then more Ritalin, then more cocaine. Then I need more. I always need more. For all of my life I have needed more..."

More, Now, Again is the brutally honest, often painful account of Wurtzel's descent into drug addiction. It is also a love story: How Wurtzel managed to break free of her relationship with Ritalin and learned to love life, and herself, is at the heart of this ultimately uplifting memoir that no reader will soon forget.

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5 (Perfeito)

Sempre que leio um livro de alguém lidando com um problema de ordem mental, me aproximo daquele estado de achar que eu posso sim superar meus transtornos, e que não preciso me preocupar, tudo vai dar certo. Esse livro me trouxe isso. Ao tratar sua adicção, Wurtzel é forçada a verificar todas as feridas de sua vida, para que assim possa encontrar outras maneiras de lidar com seus problemas, maneiras essas que não envolvam cheirar uma carreira de ritalina (!). A forma como ela racionaliza os comportamentos dos adictos é fascinante.