It's 1967, and a compulsive writer 17 year old girl named Susanna Kaysen (Winona Ryder) is like a lot of American teenagers of her age; confused, insecure, struggling to make sense of the rapidly changing world around her. But she had suicide intent, she mixed a bottle of aspirins with vodka, so pressed by her parents, she went to a psychiatrist.
The psychiatrist she meets with, however, gives to her behavior a name:
Borderline Personality Disorder. This disorder is manifested by uncertainty about self-image, long-term goals, types of friends or lovers to have, which values to adopt, a pervasive feeling of emptiness. Her self-concept is unstable and chaotic, she has a fragile identity, she seeks support and definition from others, and this turns in anger when is not helpful.
Her personality disorder lands her in a mental hospital named ‘Claymoore'. Here, in between the pill dole from the nursing staff, she writes endlessly in her dog-eared journal and fills it with tell-tale......

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Title: Girl Interrupted
Approximate Word Count: 319
Approximate Pages: 2 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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