Product Details

• Published on: 1991-03-08
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Ingram
Chronicles the three-year battle of a mentally ill, but perceptive, teenage girl against a world of her own creation, emphasizing her relationship with the doctor who gave her the ammunition of self-understanding with which to help herself.

Customer Reviews

I promise you'll enjoy it
This is really a book for everyone. Obviously, if you're suffering from some form of mental illness, you'll want to read this book and you'll be able to relate to parts of it. But if you're not, you'll also enjoy it as a look at how the "other half" lives. This is a harrowing yet touching account of a teenager's foray into the land of mental illness. Would also recommend another book (disturbing yet at times funny) called THE BARK OF THE DOGWOOD--the main character suffers from multiple personality disorder and post traumatic stress syndrome.

a closer look at schitsophrenia
I read this book in high school, and I recently read it again. It took on a whole new depth once I read it again later in life. This book looks into a teenage girls struggle over 3 years in a mental institution. She works with a gifted psychologist to try and find her sanity. I found this book very intresting and touching. You really feel like you are in her head, and understand why she does the things she does and live through her struggles. Though it doesn't seem to be as well known as Sylvia Plaths "the bell jar" I found it to be just as good and better in some ways. I found it to be a much deeper and almost more disturbing look at someones struggle. I would recomend reading it.

Life is not beautiful
Have you ever felt you can go on in life, and you just want to give up? Try reading, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden,by Hannah Green where she talks about a mental ill girl called Deborah. Deborah is sent to a mental ill hospital where she meets Dr. Fried which tries to help her. Deborah goes through the tuffest four years of her life. She feels like giving up all the time, but her doctor tells her, "I never promised you a rose garden." Deborah goes on even with her health problems and confronts the world. Read this book and you will see what problems she goes through.