Living My Life: A Perspective on Suicide in Connection with Susana Kaysen's Book, "Girl, Interrupted"
Date Submitted: 08/13/2000 14:06:31
Category: / Recreation & Sports / Health Care
Length: 2 pages (610 words)
Category: / Recreation & Sports / Health Care
Length: 2 pages (610 words)
There have been numerous occasions on which I have contemplated suicide without knowing why it was I wanted to die. While reading Susana Kaysen's book, Girl, Interrupted, I was able to personally relate to Kaysen's thoughts and feelings of suicide. Not wanting death, but just a quiet mind that would relieve me of the obsessive suicidal thoughts, which relentlessly plagued me without warning. Kaysen states, "Actually, it was only part of myself I wanted to …
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…I had made an effort to get professional help for her and she became angry with me. I did not pursue my attempt to assist her for fear it would destroy our friendship. I am left to wonder if backing down was the right thing to do; our friendship was ultimately destroyed after all.
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Works cited
Kaysen, Susana. Girl, Interrupted. New York: Turtle Bay Books. 1993.
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