Girl Interrupted Analysis

The book girl interrupted by Susanna Kaysen is a memoir of her time in the mentors back in the 1970s. During this time Susanna discusses every new thing she's learned, like the differences between this world, the one in a mental facility, in the world she is still considered normal. The most important thing Susanna learned was that only you can truly ever heal yourself.

Although very vague idea, many people can agree with it through personal experience. Susanna met many different kinds of people when she went into the ward, many who were considered too far gone to ever re-enter society. Because she was surrounded by these people Susanna believes that she only got worse. She suddenly began thinking in very psychotic ways, over analyzing everything.

When Susana left award for the first time she was able to survive, enjoy life and be a normal person who could hold a job. Out of the ward Susana didn't have people who checked up on her every five minutes, she was free. In a sense this was the best thing that could've ever happened her, because she had time to herself. But she also couldn't move it back to ordinary life after living that certain, safe life for a very long time. So although freedom was a good thing is he's on his life it was exactly what she needed, since she still couldn't find her so. This only proves that free or encaged, one can never truly find a remedy for their illness, unless they search within themselves.

The best of him of Susanna struggling to find herself was when she received a marriage proposal from her longtime boyfriend.

At first, although not thrilled, Susanna agreed that to go along with the idea of a wedding. Ultimately the wedding never did happen and Susanna returned to the ward. While there her still boyfriend tried every method to convince her to leave the ward and stay with him. Saying things like, “she didn't belong in this place,” or, “he could help her.” In the end Susanna choose to stop seeing him because she knew that another person didn't help in the long run. One couldn't focus all their happiness on one person or thing because that thing always has a possibility of leaving. Susana was smart letting her future husband go because of her need to invest time in herself. At the end of the novel Susanna talks about how everyone in her class knew what they wanted to be when they grew up and how every single person in her graduating class went to college, except her. She felt pressured all her life to get perfect grades and this was such mental they're constantly getting told what to do and have so many good healer, never helps is in. Instead it worse and things so she only needed time for yourself. Time to discover who she really was and what she really loved, things she had never gotten before. Things that proved to be her

cure.

After meeting multiple people, many who committed suicide, Susana learned that you need to rest on your own shoulder. In the real world many from the ward didn't make it because in the ward they were babied and given treatment every day, when things get thrown out of whack only negatives come. Luckily for Susanna she wasn't in the boat where she couldn't understand her purpose in life, like many people in the ward. Polly was an example of this, she flourished inside the ward, always calm and collected, but could never make it outside. She had a psychotic episodes which were impossible for her to get over, and wonder how hard treatment try. Susanna's treatments helped her open up more, discover herself and this all lead to her escaping the ward and eventually living a happy life.

Girl, Interrupted gives a giant glimpse into the world of the mentally ill, how they see and comprehend things. Susanna learned how to be sick and how to over analyze everything from her ward mates. She learned how to find her cure, by constantly signing out of the ward and coming back when she knew she couldn't do it. In short the most important thing to do when battling mental illness is to find yourself; here all one’s answers will be resolved.