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Page Count: 320
Printing Date: September 01, 2003
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But inside I'm screaming is one woman's unforgettable story about what it is to lose control as the world watches, to figure out what went so very wrong and to accept an imperfect life in a world that demands perfection.
While breaking the hottest news story of the year, broadcast journalist Isabel Murphy falls apart on live television in front of an audience of millions. She lands at Three Breezes, a four-star psychiatric hospital nicknamed the 'nut hut,' where she begins the painful process of recovering the life everyone thought she had.
But accepting her place among her fellow patients proves difficult. Isabel struggles to reconcile the fact that she is, indeed, one of them, and faces the reality that in order to mend her painfully fractured life she must rely solely on herself.
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if you read the summary and r interested please read it will be worth every min!!!!
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I thought that this book was going to be a good read and something I could relate to. But I think it was only ok and there were things in it that were very unrealistic. Such as, if you commit suicide, you don't get to voluntarily admit yourself. And you sure wouldn't be allowed to go wherever you want to on the grounds. You would be in a lock down ward. And I don't think shock treatment would be given that readily without the patient's consent. I just thought it could be much better than it was.
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If you have ever been through a period of depression caused by trying to please everyone but yourself (haven't we all?) then you will relate to this book. It takes you through the downfall into depression and allows a path back to the surface. I fell upon this book at the perfect moment in my life. Hopefully, someone else will be able to experience the same.
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This book has been my biggest reading disappointment this year. With such a promising plotline, and the interesting backdrop of a psych hospital I was expecting an illuminating and compassionate read. But as many others have noted, the book is full of psychiatric cliches, and the superior attitude of Isabel, the narrator, grates. Flock fails to gain compassion for any of her charaters, and while she seems to have researched the medications relevant to depression and anxiety, her portrayal of a psych hospital seems unrealistic. If Isabel is a voluntary patient, why does she have the ECT treatment? And what hospital has intense night time group therapy sessions that bring up each patient's most crucial (and confidential) issues? I also feel that Flock wormed her way out of a more complex ending - what does happen with Isabel's job and marriage? Overall a very superficial and disappointing book.
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I had to check on Wikipedia to make sure that Elizabeth Flock wasn't a mentally challenged person who somehow managed to write coherent sentences.
I can't figure out why everyone is rallying around this book. I read the reviews and was interested, but the tone of this "novel" reads like a piece in a whiny 14 year-old's blog, not an acclaimed piece of fiction by a New York Times bestselling author and former "journalist". Whoever edited this book should be fired , and Flock needs to take an intro course in lit. I want to lock her in a room with Chuck Palahniuk for a week. Honestly, a very first grader could write a better novel than this dribble.
If you generally like this genre, try some books that are written with style. "Wasted" by Marya Hornbacher; "Girl, Interrupted" by Susanna Kaysen; "She's Come Undone" by Wally Lamb; "Smashed" by Koren Zailckas, or hundreds of others.
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