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 …showed first 75 words of 610 total…

…showed last 75 words of 610 total…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.