Girl, Interruoted

Susana Kaysen, a 17 year old teenager voluntarily checks herself in at Claymoore after a confrontation with a psychiatrist. Claymoore is a psychiatric facility for the affluent in the 1960’s. She initially took fifty aspirin with a bottle of vodka for a headache and denies about killing herself. As a result, her parents ask a psychiatrist friend to see Susana and to take her to Claymoore. During her two year stay at Claymoore, she meets other patients whom she developed relationships with. She learns about the nature of mental illness, the cruelty and compassion of other people and the obstacles that women face in society. After a few months, Susana finally starts talking to her psychiatrist and gets a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder.
Borderline Personality Disorder is a pervasive pattern of instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image and emotions. It occurs mostly in early adulthood and is more prevalent in females. People with this disorder often exhibit impulsive behaviors and shows majority of these symptoms in order to be diagnosed:
  1) Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment. They believed that this abandonment implies that they are bad. These abandonment fears are related to intolerance of being alone and a need of other people with them. Their frantic efforts to avoid abandonment may include impulsive actions such as self-mutilating or suicidal behaviors.    
  2) Unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation. They may idealize potential caregivers or lovers at the first or second meeting, demand to spend a lot of time together, and share the most intimate details early in a relationship. However, they may switch quickly from idealizing other people to devaluing them, feeling that the other person does not care enough, does not give enough, is not "there" enough.
  3)   Identity disturbance characterized by markedly and...