Girl Interrupted Book Review

Girl Interrupted Book Review. A person suffering from mental illness will come into contact with a large number of professionals, on an inpatient ward seven or eight members of staff (from both the ward and outside) can decide that person’s future, yet mental illness remains a wholly. One of the obsessions of the book is how language fails her.

Susanna kaysen (winona ryder) is a promiscuous rebel who spends her time depressed and pondering her death. This book was based on her story in the 1960s when it wasn’t acceptable to tell anyone you had a mental illness, much less write a book about it. In her account of her predicaments and those of her friends in the hospital, kaysen makes her audience to make more inquiry on mental illness and its associated stigma.

Kaysen is clearly a gifted writer.

When kaysen was 18, in 1967, she was admitted to mclean psychiatric hospital outside boston, where she would spend the next 18 months. The book describes her time there with uncanny detail and really brings awareness. “girl, interrupted” by susanna kaysen. I’ve been struggling with depression and anxiety since high school, obsessive compulsive disorder since childhood, and utter contempt with a large portion of the world since before i can remember.