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A review by rosietakesonliterature
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
4.0
“I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won’t” (My Suicide, Kaysen)
It is always an interesting experience, reading incredibly intelligent and gifted people describe their madness. They don’t search for words to describe the chaos of their minds—they are messy and disorganized but the contemplation is so clear to anyone who reads them. She writes with honesty that many would envy, myself included. I’m not entirely sure what my own diagnosis was, back in my weekly therapy days, but reading her reflections on her life being “interrupted” take me back to when I was eighteen, and lost, and didn’t know if I had any bones either.
It is always an interesting experience, reading incredibly intelligent and gifted people describe their madness. They don’t search for words to describe the chaos of their minds—they are messy and disorganized but the contemplation is so clear to anyone who reads them. She writes with honesty that many would envy, myself included. I’m not entirely sure what my own diagnosis was, back in my weekly therapy days, but reading her reflections on her life being “interrupted” take me back to when I was eighteen, and lost, and didn’t know if I had any bones either.