Rest in peace, Elizabeth Wurtzel.
When I was in high school, I read Prozac Nation. At the time, I didn’t understand depression — in fact, I didn’t even know the meaning of the word. And I definitely didn’t know the term “mental illness.” All I knew was that I wasn’t feeling quite right and I found comfort in books like Veronika Decides to Die by Pahlo Coehlo and Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen. Stories that centered a female lead character who, for one reason or another, was battling depression and attempted suicide.
ADVERTISEMENT Wurtzel could definitely be described as before her time, but she was more than that: she made things possible for other women. Wurtzel was the over-sharer before the world knew what that meant. She was a Lena Dunham before we could define what that meant . And, as Wurtzel said herself in a 2018 essay for The Cut, she was “a hashtag before there was Twitter.”
Wurtzel was a free spirit who aimed to live in the moment. Her last essays relay her inability to grow up in the standard sense of the word, her emotionally abusive and dangerous sublandlord, the truth about her real father, her marriage in 2015, and finally, her second round of cancer.
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