Miranda Sawyer

But it's legal.

They haven't banned it.

It's like they haven't banned it.

It's really easy to get hold of because it's like the late 80s and they haven't actually banned it.

So she's on E all the time and she describes the effects of E kind of really brilliantly.

But because she is essentially...

I mean, really, she's mentally ill.

It has the same effect, but then there's terrible comedowns.

She is really self-destructive.

She kind of wakes up screaming.

It's not the nice, mellow kind of like after effect that maybe, you know, other people had.

And throughout the whole of this book, what I felt like, which you talked about, is that these days you'd say, you know what?

You're an addict.

You've definitely got addiction problems.

And you think you've got depression, but you might be bipolar.

And actually, why don't we do all these tests and put you into... And you're really definitely ADHD.

Yeah.

And when she writes about Prozac, because she ends up, you know, it gets a little bit better at the end when she's on Prozac.

And Prozac, I remember at the time when it came along, which was kind of like, which was the early 90s, I remember thinking, because I was so inspired by the ecstasy culture.

that I felt like it was like a legal version of ecstasy because they both work on serotonin levels.