Crossing the Borderline Personality: Madness Interrogated in Girl, Interrupted

This is an article I found online and I am doing a summary of its main points.

The story takes place during the 1960's and is about her 18 month time spent at a psychiatric hospital.

There are narrative chapters and non-narrative chapters.

Her narrative material is basically her relations with the other young women there.

She is considered to have a mild mental illness.

She was hospitalized with her consent.

Her diagnosis is having a borderline personalilty disorder.

She was hospitalized for nonconformity or rebellion as much as for mental illness.

She avoids romanticizing her condition.

The article also contains works cited.

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