Book · 1993 · Mental health
Girl, interrupted
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So then it's like navigating that and like you know, like I I mentioned like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Girl, Interrupted, favorite films, love them but that's not the reality Selena or I live in every day, you know, I have been in a facility and but it was not like what's being portrayed.
The best things said about it
I had just read the book Girl Interrupted, which is now going to Broadway or on Broadway. Oh, wow. Interesting. It was just It was just a book. This is a book before the movie. It was just a book about a girl that went to a goddamn place where they make you feel.
Why people recommend it
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen is a well-known memoir detailing the author's stay at a psychiatric hospital in the late 1960s. On Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, D'Arcy Carden brought up the book, recalling that she had read it when she was younger and even used it for a high school monologue. She noted its transition to the stage and characterized it as a story about a girl sent to a place where people are made to feel. Later, on On Purpose with Jay Shetty, Mandy Teefey mentioned Girl, Interrupted alongside another famous title to discuss how popular media portrays mental health facilities. She explained that while she loved the works as favorite films, they did not reflect the actual reality of her own experiences inside such facilities. Both speakers engaged with the title to reflect on youth, performance, and the gap between cinematic depictions of psychiatric care and the lived reality of mental health treatment, demonstrating how the book and its adaptations resonate across different personal contexts and discussions about psychological institutions.
Every mention
D'Arcy Carden I had just read the book Girl Interrupted, which is now going to Broadway or on Broadway. Oh, wow. Interest… 1
“I had just read the book Girl Interrupted, which is now going to Broadway or on Broadway. Oh, wow. Interesting. It was just It was just a book. This is a book before the movie. It was just a book about a girl that went to a goddamn place where they make you feel.”
Mandy Teefey So then it's like navigating that and like you know, like I I mentioned like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nes… 1
“So then it's like navigating that and like you know, like I I mentioned like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Girl, Interrupted, favorite films, love them but that's not the reality Selena or I live in every day, you know, I have been in a facility and but it was not like what's being portrayed.”
Other mentions (3: passing, ad reads, own books)
“If you're offended by that, I don't know. Maybe you should go be in a padded cell like Girl Interrupted and not leave the house.”
“the first book I can remember noticing it in was girl interrupted by Susanna kase which was made into a not so great movie but was a wonderful Memoir that came out in like the late 80s or early 90s”
“the elizab withth wartel Girl Interrupted all these books that were talking about mental health”