Susanna Kaysen
Susanna Kaysen
Susanna Kaysenis an American author, best known for her memoir Girl, Interrupted...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth11 November 1948
CountryUnited States of America
communication two mental-illness
Mental illness seems to be a communication problem between interpreters one and two.
distance fall numbness
It's important to cultivate detachment. One way to do this is to practice imagining yourself dead, or in the process of dying. If there's a window, you must imagine your body falling out of that window. If there's a knife, you must imagine the knife piercing your skin. If there's a train coming, you must imagine your torso flattened under its wheels. These excercises are necessary to achieving the proper distance.
skills
As far as I could see, life demanded skills I didn't have.
suicide suicidal mean
Suicide is a form of murder - premeditated murder. It isn't something you do the first time you think of doing it. It takes getting used to. And you need the means, the opportunity, the motive. A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind.
hurt girl-interrupted trying
I know what it's like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can't. How you hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside.
singers madness poet
Our hospital was famous and housed many great poets and singers. Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers or was it that poets and singers specialized in madness?
world cry smile-to-the-world
Smile and the world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone.
boredom feelings facts
My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous.
depression crazy girl-interrupted
Lunatics are similar to designated hitters. Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire family can't go into the hospital, one person is designated as crazy and goes inside. Then, depending on how the rest of the family is feeling that person is kept inside or snatched out, to prove something about the family's mental health.
hard hard-things
A thought is a hard thing to control.
girl-interrupted survival talent
I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.
inspirational crazy girl-interrupted
The only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.
children lying crazy
Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.
world
The world didn't stop because we weren't in it anymore.