Girl Interrupted Audio, Cassette – Abridged, Audiobook

Girl Interrupted Audio, Cassette – Abridged, Audiobook

Author: Visit Amazon's Susanna Kaysen Page | Language: English | ISBN: 0679434194 | Format: PDF, EPUB

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Girl Interrupted Audio, Cassette – Abridged, Audiobook
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• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Random House Audio; Abridged edition (November 30, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0679434194
• ISBN-13: 978-0679434191
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,257,740 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

This slim memoir of a college student who suffers a "breakdown" honestly explores the details of mental illness, specifically "borderline personality" disorders. The account starts in a cold, almost frightening way: the first page is a copy of author Kaysen's case record folder. The reader then is given a fleeting description of the quiet moments leading up to Kaysen's lengthy hospitalization, and then is shown more official documents. This juxtaposition of the clinical with the personal highlights exactly what this memoir aims to express, that the darkness of mental disease has a face, a voice, that can be hidden by labels and diagnoses.

Kaysen's difficult and often terrifying journey - from the ordinary daughter of two achieving parents to a patient at a psychiatric hospital to, tentatively, a recovered young woman - is at once moving and beautiful. Even when the author asks questions that many before her have asked, she makes them seem fresh: "What is it about meter and cadence and rhythm that makes their makers mad?" She explores her illness at its most intimate moments and often follows her breaks with reality with detached physician reports, giving the reader both inside and outside perspectives. Through her interactions with other patients, Kaysen makes it clear that not everyone is as fortunate as she, since some cannot extricate themselves from their illness. Interestingly, despite once not believing that she really had bones inside her, Kaysen is not convinced she was mentally ill; if nothing else, this questions the internal changes we've been taught to accept as part of the onset of mental illness.

This book should not be read by anyone believing she is slipping toward insanity, but it might be a comfort to those who have already emerged.

Susanna Kaysen checked herself into McLean Psychiatric Hospital when she was 18, in 1967. This book is about how her life was interrupted, the two years she spent at the hospital, the other girls on the ward, her keepers, and her psychiatrists. It shows you how someone with a "borderline personality" thinks, and how they act, without going into a lot of technical detail, just her own experiences. This book reminds me of The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, because of it's inside look of a teenager. The style of writing is also similar, yet it's not the same. The descriptive detail in both books is there throughout, but never excessive or boring. It keeps you reading until the end, and then wanting to know more.
One thing that stood out to me was the character description. It's most prominent in Susanna, the narrator, the main character. She shares her thoughts, whether or not they're important to other people, it's important to her, and she'll go into detail explaining it.
"Take a thought---anything; it doesn't matter. I'm tired of sitting here in front of the nursing station: a perfectly reasonable thought. Here's what velocity does to it. First, break down the sentence: "I'm tired"-well, are you really tired, exactly? Is that like sleepy? You have to check all your body parts for sleepiness, and while you're doing that, there's a bombardment of images of sleepiness, along these lines: head falling onto pillow, head hitting pillow, Wynken, Blynken, and Nod, Little Nemo rubbing sleep from his eyes, a sea monster. Uh-oh, a sea monster. If you're lucky, you can avoid the sea monster and stick with sleepiness."
This is probably my favorite quote from the book. Her thought process is so random, it's almost funny.

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