Susanna Kaysen

Summary Susanna Kaysen, at the age of 18, was sent to a mental hospital. She has Borderline Personality, multiple personalities, she talks about her experiences in the hospital and the people she met. As well as after she was out of the hospital and how hard it was for her to readjust to a daily life. This book is based on true events.
Epilogue
Life is not what it seems to you, as it does to me. In my life, everything is jumbled up and confusing. Like when you get a really complicated math problem that has multiple steps to solve, that’s what I see the world as and that’s how life is after I got out of the hospital. It gets easier readjusting to the daily life, but it’s hard trying to get through life without people asking why I was in the hospital in the first place. After adjusting to my daily life, I tackled the challenge of writing this book for …show more content…
I'm so used to being alone, but after the hospital, I got used to relying on someone else doing the things for me and watching me. My husband is teaching me how to cook my own food again, so when he goes to work I can cook the food. He supports me through my journey of writing and readjusting to life. Taking medicine is also a daily thing that I have to do, of course, I am monitored by my husband. It is an adjustment but I’m getting there. I still talk to Lisa, she is doing great so is her kid. He warmed up to me since the first time we met. He looks a little like Lisa, but more like his father, well from what I saw in pictures that Lisa showed me. “We don’t need him, I am a grown woman I can do it myself,” Lisa would say as she put dishes away, “Besides, he wasn’t much help after all.” I support her choice in leaving him, fully. It is hard for Lisa to rely on some else for help. She has always relied upon herself to take care of everything, well she relied on the nurses for pills, besides that she has been