Summary Of Suicide By Susanna Kaysen

The Novel is about an eighteen years old woman, named Susanna Kaysen, that was diagnosed with a “borderline personality disorder”. It begins with her trip to the doctor where they talk about her newly formed pimple, and her feelings of doubt and self-consciousness. After being diagnosed with “borderline personality disease”, the doctor sent Susanna to McLean’s Mental Hospital, where she was told she would only stay there for two weeks but ends staying there for nearly two years.
Throughout the novel, Sausanna keeps questioning her mental state at the hospital. She also becomes close to her world of depression, suppressed anger, hate, and sadness. She becomes friends with many other patients on ward. Like Lisa, who entertained patient with her escape attempts and exaggerated disregard to hospital authorities. And Georgina, Susanna's roommate at the hospital, who was having a relationship with a guy named Wade, a violent and unstable guy from another ward. Susanna thought that her and Georgina were the least mentally ill patients at the hospital. …show more content…
She felt like she was a strong woman trapped in a diseased mind. So she was forced to find herself and put the pieces back together before being admitted to the normal world. And at the end she did get better and was released, where she found a husband that kept taking her trips and spent money with her, although he felt bad about spending a lot of money but Susanna always talks him into it. She lived with her husband in Massachusetts where she stayed in touch with her ex-roommate Georgina, that visited her every once in awhile and would call her a few times a