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Girl Interrupted

            The setting is Mclean Psychiatric Hospital in the late nineteen sixties. The war had been going on for quite sometime. This story takes place in and out of the hospital setting, in the fall, in Massachusetts.
             The main character is Susanna Kaysen a troubled young girl. She tries to over dose on a bottle of Tylenol. Her parents make her commit her self to a psychiatric hospital. She can't figure out what she is doing there. During her stay there she meets many mentally challenged people. She really does not fit into this setting, until one day a girl name Lisa arrives. Lisa had run away from the hospital and the police found her all drugged out. After meeting Lisa, they became friends. Suzanne does not realize that Lisa is a bad person and will corrupt her during her stay. After a few months all the girls in the clinic decide to break into Dr. Wick's office and find their medical files. Susanna finds her file and does not like what she reads. She turns to the medical books to look up her diagnosis, which is borderline personality disorder. She thinks to her self how am I to over come this. Not listening to the doctors, she runs away with Lisa. Being comforted by her fears Susanne sees her friend Daisy from the clinic kill herself. Daisy killed herself after Lisa pushed her over the edge with the truth of her father molesting her. Daisy liked to be called Mrs. Randon. Susanne thinks what am I to do after experiencing the death of a friend. .
             Susanne returns to the clinic where she realizes that she needs to get her act together. She gets a journal and starts writing her feelings and thoughts into the book. She sees the doctor twice a week and takes her medication so that she can get better. She feels that she has overcome her disorder. Susanne now knows what she has to do to get out of the hospital. .
             After 18 months Susanne is released from the clinic and she has the opportunity to live a normal life.


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