Reviews tagging 'Schizophrenia/Psychosis '

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

61 reviews

nicoleanthony's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Suicide attempt, Addiction, Suicide, Death, Excrement, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, and Suicidal thoughts

nirellis's review against another edition

dark informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

Really interesting. I advise for anyone who’s planning to read this book to mentally be in a place  where they can handle heavy topics and traumatic situations. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Self harm, Fire/Fire injury, Confinement, Suicide, Mental illness, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Eating disorder

madisbookshelf's review against another edition

emotional funny informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

 I've said it before and I'll say it again, one hug from Susanna Kaysen could fix everything broken inside me.
"Girl, Interrupted" by Susanna Kaysen is a memoir based on her stay 18-month stay at the infamous McLean Psychiatric Hospital. From the mouth of Susanna herself, we hear of her and her fellow patients' experiences as psychiatric patients in the 1960s.
Before reading this memoir, I had never related to an author so deeply. As someone who was also hospitalized in a psychiatric facility as a teenager, I found myself relating to almost every little piece of Susanna's experience. Susanna has a way of taking complex memories and turning them into something that everyone can understand and relate to in some way that I find to be so beautiful. After completing this memoir, I feel that the young "psycho" girl inside me that was once hospitalized has finally been heard by somebody, and for that, I will always be thankful <3.
Although I personally hate rating memoirs (who am I to rate someone else's life experiences? lol), I have to give "Girl, Interrupted" five stars.
Thank you Susanna for being the queen of us mentally ill teen girls. We love you. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Suicide, and Self harm

cleo_j's review against another edition

challenging dark informative medium-paced

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicidal thoughts, Addiction, Mental illness, Infidelity, Self harm, Suicide attempt, and Fire/Fire injury

hannaashaffer's review against another edition

dark emotional fast-paced

5.0

this was amazing. i loved this so much, i haven’t seen the whole movie but it definitely gave me a perception of what the book would be like but it was completely different, don’t expect a narrative story with a straight timeline. it is a collection of thoughts that the author has written 30 years after the experience with a better understanding of herself. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Self harm

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Incest, Suicidal thoughts, Eating disorder, Drug use, Addiction, Blood, Suicide, Abandonment, and Suicide attempt

kikalox's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Body horror, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

thestoriesjar's review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, and Self harm

Moderate: Drug use, Suicide, and Addiction

Minor: Eating disorder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Adult/minor relationship

phantomgecko's review against another edition

challenging sad fast-paced

2.5

Unstructured, which I don't like. Various anecdotes, which I do like.

This girl was unjustly treated, and the author asks pertinent questions about the system.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Eating disorder, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Death, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide attempt, and Forced institutionalization

waytoomanybooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

I don’t often give out 5 star reviews, but this book is certainly one that deserves it. This memoir will resonate with anyone who’s been in treatment. If you know, you know. 🌻💛

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Body horror, Body shaming, Suicide attempt, Violence, Chronic illness, Classism, Death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicide, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicidal thoughts, Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Grief, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Medical content

grereads's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

The movie was already one of my all time favourites so I knew I'd love the book, and it definitely was even better than the adaptation. I loved the fact the chapters were really short because I prefer them. This was an instant 5/5 and a new favourite of mine. Some of the stories and the quotes from this book will forever be with me. Even though I don't have any diagnosis of mental illness, I felt really close to Susanna: I think that is because this is also the story of a teenage girl who feels disconnected from the world she lives in, which is something I have experienced and still experience, like many other young women. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Death, Drug use, Adult/minor relationship, Eating disorder, Injury/Injury detail, Forced institutionalization, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Cursing, Excrement, Medical trauma, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Sexual assault, Addiction, Sexism, and Blood