Susanna Kaysen

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Tomorrow, May 19, is Mental Health Action Day. So today on Now I've Heard Everything, a 1994 conversation with a woman whose own mental health crisis became a bestselling book, then a major potion picture. In 1967, at the age of 18, Susanna Kaysen's family had her hospitalized for treatment of depression.  She was told she would be there for two weeks.  She was actually there for 18 months, after being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.. Years later Kaysen drew on her experience to write her memoir Girl, Interrupted. I met her the following year.