And I know, knew for sure, with an absolute certainty, that this is rock bottom, this what the worst possible thing feels like. It is not some grand, wretched emotional breakdown. It is, in fact, so very mundane:…Rock Bottom is an inability to cope with the commonplace that is so extreme it makes even the grandest and loveliest things unbearable…Rock bottom is feeling that the only thing that matters in all of life is the one bad moment…Rock bottom is everything out of focus. It’s a failure of vision, a failure to see the world how it is, to see the good in what it is, and only to wonder why the hell things look the way they do and not—and not some other way.

In July 2010 Elizabeth Wurtzel wrote a proposal in the Brennan Law Center blog for abolishing bar exams. In the early 2000s Elizabeth Wurtzel applied to Yale Law School and was accepted despite the fact that "… Her combined LSAT score of 160 was as Elizabeth Wurtzel put it 'adequately bad' … 'Suffice it to say I was admitted for other reasons' Ms. In her words


Bibliography
Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America: A Memoir (1994)
Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women (1998)
More Now Again: A Memoir of Addiction (2001)
The Secret of Life: Commonsense Advice for Uncommon Women (2004) (previously publiElizabeth Wurtzeld as Radical Sanity and The Bitch Rules).

She has a B. A. from Yale Law School.