Susanna's Suicide Chapter Summary

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Susanna is an 18 year old girl who just graduated high school in the late 1960’s, after a suicide attempt and a session with a therapist sends her to a psychiatric hospital called Mclean, where she spends two years with a group of girls who all have mental illnesses and issues of there own, Susanna’s thoughts are her thoughts of what went on in the hospital with this group of girls and how she was able to analyze herself, in this book you follow her through the journey of a mental asylum where we learn about insane and sane and recovery of the insane and sane. This book is a memoir of author Susanna Kaysen who was sent to a psychiatric ward in the late 1960’s, she was sent there for borderline personality disorder, this story doesn’t have …show more content…

in or her mind, Susanna goes through a period of depersonalization where she doesn’t believe that she has bones in her hand so she attempts to cut her hand open to see her bones, Susanna also has trouble with defining time and she needs to know how …show more content…

When Susanna went through a period of depersonalization she thought that she didn’t have any bones in her hand she went through an intense identity crisis in psychology today they describe the feelings and the outcome of these periods of identity crisis, “People with acute onsets of depersonalization in many instances undergo such an overwhelming identity crisis that they cannot conceptualize, formulate, or describe their experiences of losing their "self." Unbearable fear and avalanching anxiety urge them to seek immediate help, sometimes rushing to the ER.”

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