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 submitted by Griffin Nameroff
+. Susanna writes that she felt unfit for the educational and social systems, do you think this was the type of woman who society thought was bound for institutional care?
+. Susanna mentioned that the nurse Valerie was not afraid of the patients or the doctors. Why do you think the nurses would be scared of the doctors? Why do you think that Valerie was able to not be?
+Submitted by Jack Kurz. I pledge…
+. In the chapter “Dental Health”, Susanna asked the Dentist how much time she had lost during the procedure. The Dentist refuses to tell her and makes nurse Valerie deal with the issue. Did the Dentist treat Susanna this way on purpose to possibly cause a conflict? Would not the easier solution be to give Sussana a duration even if it was an approximation? If just found the treatment of Susanna to be belittling and I don’t think the Dentist would have treated another, “sane”, patient in that manner.
+. Girl Interrupted was not written in chronological order, so at times it was hard to follow. But one thing I noticed in the second half of the book was Susanna began to gain more freedom. It appeared that she was allowed to leave the hospital to gain employment. Was this a common practice for mental institutions during the mid 20th century?
+Submitted by Jayden Jordan
+) In the chapter titled "Nineteen Sixty-Eight," the last line states, "We looked at him, a tiny dark man in chains on our TV screen with the one thing we would always lack: credibility." (Kaysen, 93) What identity are they applying the word credibility to? Race? Mental soundness? Have we seen the credibility of a patient questioned before? Discuss.
+) At the end of the book, there are records of Susanna's "outcome with regard to mental disorder" box was listed as "cured." (Kaysen, 169) What does "cured" mean? Is it applied differently to different people with the same mental illness?
+(Submitted by Carson Berrier; I pledge…)
+. I found it interesting that Kaysen didn't really talk about the treatments that they all went through or their effects like in the other narratives that we read for Tuesday. What kinds of treatments were common for people with borderline personality disorder? She said that there was a hydrotherapy room, but never mentioned going to it. Were they relying more on drugs and talk therapy for treatment?
+. Kaysen seemed to have a lot of freedom at the hospital since she needed little supervision and talked about how she could go to her boyfriend's house and had a job. Was this common in mental hospitals? Or was this unique to this hospital because of how Dr. Wick ran it like a bording school?
+Submitted by Allison Love (I pledge...)