Girl, Interrupted MVP

The book “Girl, Interrupted,” by Susanna Kaysen describes how chaotic her life has been while she was locked up in a mental hospital because of her borderline personality disorder. In one of the chapters, she describes what was going through her mind while she tried committing suicide. The way she describes it is like being able to go into a person’s mind and seeing what they feel like. She claims that committing suicide takes time and planning, that it doesn’t just happen from day to night. I think this whole chapter is the most valuable part because, in a way, it raises awareness. We live in a society where we think that being suicidal is being weak. In reality, suicide takes more strength than people realize. Although many people may attempt to commit suicide, there is also people that in reality just want to be saved. For instance, Krysten took fifty aspirins to attempt suicide, but as soon as she took them, she went to a public place where everyone would be able to see her when she passed out. Krysten, just as any other person wants to be found and wants people to care for her. Krysten compares herself to a piece of meat that was in the store by saying, “The meat was bruised, bleeding, and imprisoned in a tight wrapping. And, though I had a six-month respite from thinking about it, so was I.” Just by reading this quote, we can tell how a person feels and some of us can even relate to it. After all, we are all slowly dying in a place where we feel trapped. We are all hurt in some way and it is a matter of time before we all begin to bleed. Her suicide led her to where she is right now. Without this whole chapter, we wouldn’t be able to understand what was really happening to her, what was really going through her head.