Living My Life: A Perspective on Suicide in Connection with Susana Kaysen's Book, "Girl, Interrupted"

There have been numerous occasions on which I have contemplated suicide without knowing why it was I wanted to die. While reading Susana Kaysen's book, Girl, Interrupted, I was able to personally relate to Kaysen's thoughts and feelings of suicide. Not wanting death, but just a quiet mind that would relieve me of the obsessive suicidal thoughts, which relentlessly plagued me without warning. Kaysen states, "Actually, it was only part of myself I wanted to …

…I had made an effort to get professional help for her and she became angry with me. I did not pursue my attempt to assist her for fear it would destroy our friendship. I am left to wonder if backing down was the right thing to do; our friendship was ultimately destroyed after all. <Tab/><Tab/> Works cited Kaysen, Susana. Girl, Interrupted. New York: Turtle Bay Books. 1993.