Mental Illness In Hannah Carlson's Girl Interrupted

That it is one that looks to supress women and their symptoms not cure them. She holds nothing back in explaining that she was given various relaxation and sleeping pills to keep her docile and compliant. If she did not conform they would up the treatment and even punish her. This is no way for a hospital to be supposedly helping people. Kaysen wants her readers to understand the stigmatization that occurs not only within these institutions but in the world.

She acts in a caring manner to everyone’s face, but when she is alone, she becomes a heartless woman, determined to reveal what she knows. Miss Strangeworth is the one causing the distress in her community, yet she acts oblivious as to what is bothering everyone. She shows her extreme deceitfulness by attempting to ease Helen Crane’s concern about her child by saying “Nonsense… some of them develop… more quickly than others” (Jackson, 1941, p. 167). This is deceitful because she is aware that there is something different about the child and instead of voicing that, she consoles the mother, only to subsequently shatter her in an anonymous letter. Additionally, Miss Strangeworth cleverly utilizes the most common paper and envelops all townspeople use for her letters.

Even though the book tells a sad story, the use of logos makes the book a staple in raising awareness of human trafficking. Using experience, statistics, and reality, the novel instills both urgency and fear in its readers. The main character, Lakshmi, relates to a specific group of girls on an age level, yet her life does not relate to the Western lifestyle. The girls reading this book do not garden cucumbers on a hillside or tie aprons tight around their waist to evade the pain of hunger. McCormick writes to young western girls because they are the next generation women that both care and can make a difference.

In the book Girl, Interrupted, by Susanna Kaysen, one of the biggest focal points is mental illness. Mental illness can be tough to talk about, simply because the phrase “mental illness” encompasses such a wide range of conditions and conjures up images of deranged people, but it is very important, especially in this book. There is a certain stigma that people who are put into mental hospitals because they have medical problems or are insane and a possible danger to society. While this is sometimes true, it is far more common for patients to need help for a disorder, but just don’t know where to go or what to do, and can end up putting themselves or someone else in danger. This is the case with Susanna, who is the autobiographical main character of the book.

Social isolation, poor housing, unemployment and poverty are all linked to mental ill health. So stigma and discrimination can trap people in a cycle of illness. 5 The situation is exacerbated by the media. Media reports often link mental illness with violence, or portray people with mental health problems as dangerous, criminal, evil, or very disabled and unable to live normal, fulfilled lives. Research shows that the best way to challenge these stereotypes is through firsthand contact with people with experience of mental health problems.

Ernest Becker’s Denial of Death, Elizebeth Kolbert’s The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, and Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist all have the common theme of fearing the unknown. Each develops this theme in a different light, using varying methods from scientific evidence to a fable. These books all show how the fear of the unknown has the power to control our lives, in both positive and negative

Salinger shows that growing up is a bad thing because younger people don’t realize things that they start to notice as they grow older that will make them more skeptical about the world. Growing up is a bad thing because people do not criticize children as much, and children are more innocent

Whether it was too much dominance in the short stories “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “Trifles” or the lack of dominance, in the short story “A Sorrowful Woman”. It was too hard on the women which caused them to react so harshly. The method of overly controlling the sick women doesn’t work because treating women like property doesn’t create feelings of self worth or help them recuperate. Similarly, the method of letting the sick woman treat her own sickness based on her feelings will fail, because she will feel like she has too much responsibility, and this stress would eventually overcome her. All of these problems could have been avoided if the relationship supremacy was equal.

I will show you that the reasons for staying are of sociological, psychological and extremely emotional character and that these girls and women alike can call themselves survivors; and rightly so. In order to understand the topic of the essay fully, you must first become aware of the fact that this can happen to anyone and anywhere, no matter the circumstances. The sad truth is that oftentimes these cases go unnoticed by everyone even by the victims themselves as they fail to understand that they are being abused without being

While pain may be felt universally, the unique definition cannot be explained verbally, as the feeling varies amongst people. Dickinson utilizes juxtaposition again when describing her “Despair” (10) as “an imperial affliction” (11). In this sense, sorrow is depicted as an ailment, yet ‘imperial’ describes a kingdom or an empire. Dickinson derives ambiguity from her oxymorons; morose emotions can very well be predetermined, a feeling that is brought down from another world. Once again, Dickinson proves that once depression hits, previous conceptions held can be eternally tarnished, leaving a sordid mindset is accurately