A Confession of rage, resilience, and raw remembrance. “The mind is a fragile, terrifying thing. And sometimes, the scariest place to be... is inside it.”There’s a quiet kind of madness in this book — not the kind you scream about, but the kind that seeps into the corners. I’ve wanted to read this for a while, and once I did, it felt less like reading and more like... remembering.A girl. A pause. A room with no music. That’s how this memoir begins — not with action, but with interruption. And so...

DEL TUTTO CREDIBILE EPPURE IRREALESusanna = Winona RyderL’ospedale era su una collina fuori città, proprio come gli ospedali nei film sui matti. Il nostro era famoso e aveva ospitato molti grandi poeti e cantanti. Era l’ospedale specializzato in poeti e cantanti, o erano poeti e cantanti specializzati in pazzia?Lisa = Angelina JolieNel 1967, quando inizia questa storia, il McLean Hospital, specializzato in psichiatria, aveva già avuto tra i suoi ospiti e pazienti Ray Charles, James Taylor, Sylvi...

I have an urge to wrongly self diagnose myself with BPD

“I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent” Girl Interrupted is a memoir centred around the 18 months that the Author, Susanna Kaysen spent in a psychiatric hospital during the 1960s when she was 18 years old. Susanna was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder by a therapist and was whisked off to McLean hospital in Massachusetts (other former patients include: James Taylor, Ray Charles and Sylvia Plath). Susanna introduces us to a variety of characte...

liking this book is peak hot but also very much mentally-ill girl energy

I can always tell I really, truly liked a book, really felt it and enjoyed it, when one of two things occurs:

1) I spontaneously tear up at the ending.
2) I immediately need to own a hardcover copy but hardcovers are hard to find so I do the unthinkable: Check eBay.

I did both of these things as soon as I finished.

This is a really good book.

Bottom line: One I will certainly come back to both physically and mentally!!!

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why do i read anything except memoirs

Find all of my reviews at: http://52bookminimum.blogspot.com/ “People ask, how did you get in there? What they really want to know is if they are likely to end up in there as well. I can’t answer the real question. All I can tell them is, it’s easy.” Boy was it ever easy for Susanna Kaysen to end up in a psychiatric hospital. Now, Susanna was not “normal” per se. She randomly obsessed about things as bizarre as whether or not she actually had bones in her body since she couldn’t see them a...

I’m sort of at a loss for how to describe this book and the emotions it provoked within me. I guess the best word I could use is “unsettled”, but probably not for the reason you would imagine. This quote might shed some light on what I mean: “The less likely (a) terrible thing is to happen, the less frightening it is to look at or imagine. A person who doesn’t talk to herself or stare into nothingness is therefore more alarming than a person who does. Someone who acts “normal” raises the uncom...

“Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?” Good question, isn't it? You may start asking yourself this after reading this book.I only spent a few months taking care of patients in psychiatric hospitals, but it made me really appreciate the nuances of Kaysen's story. It is the viewpoint of someone who had to experience questioning her sanity - the one thing most of us take for granted. "Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco." What some don't know about personality dis...

have you ever spent any time in a psychiatric hospital? yeah, well, i don't recommend it. i was a patient for a total of 2 and a half days, and it was one of the best and worst experiences of my life. i liked this book because i was able to relate to some of her feelings. when i went in, it was because i was on the verge of something, and thank god i caught myself in time. my first morning there, i remember thinking, "i have to get out of here, because i may not be crazy now, but these people wi...