"Have you ever confused a dream with life? Or stolen something when you have the cash? Have you ever been blue? Or thought your train moving while sitting still? Maybe I was just crazy. Maybe it was the 60's. Or maybe I was just a girl interrupted."
I feel like Girl, Interrupted is a great movie for those trying to understand depression and anxieties and those dealing with mental illnesses.
"Explain what? Explain to a doctor that the laws of physics can be suspended? That what goes up may not come down? Explain that time can move backwards and forwards and now to then and back again and you can't control it?"
No, they're not a bunch of crazy girls in an insane asylum. This isn't American Horror Story: Asylum. It's real life.
The original therapist scene is reminiscent to what I've had. Except that's less miserable than many I've had. "What are you feeling right now?" "I don't know what I'm feeling... I don't know..."
"Four days ago you chased a bottle of aspirin with a bottle of vodka." "I had a headache..."
With depression, with mental illnesses, we do things we don't understand. Like Susanna Kaysen in Girl, Interrupted. She chased a bottle of aspirin with a bottle of vodka. Was she trying to kill herself? No. She claimed she had a headache. She had pain. Whether its emotional or physical pain, she was trying to eliminate it with a typical pain reliever. No, I'm NOT trying to say that's a way to relieve emotional or physical pain. But when you're depressed, sometimes things don't make sense. Yet it makes sense to the depressed person in their mind for some odd reason.
Can I explain some of the stuff I've done? No way in hell. It's too hard.
I tried to explain to someone who was born in the late 50's about the depression thing while letting her listen to songs that I felt portrayed the feeling well. She simply claimed, "well that didn't happen in my day!" Yes they did. Yes... They really did. Girl, Interrupted takes place in the 60's. It definitely happened then.
Army Wives last night was... Well I didn't think I would cry. At all. But oh hey. Way to make it terribly sad and bring back Pamela and Roxy and make me cry, lifetime. Good job. Haha.
I'm excited for next week of it though. It will be interesting with Claudia Joy Holden's memorial and all of that. I hope they start introducing new characters.
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