Sometimes the only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.
based on novel or book
escape
suicide attempt
identity
insanity
female friendship
based on true story
borderline personality disorder
psychiatric hospital
mental institution
female protagonist
based on memoir or autobiography
psychiatrist
mental illness
psychiatric ward
meditative
1960s
factual
exuberant