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In the opening chapter Susanna Kaysen talks about being in a parallel universe. I think the point she is trying to make is that when someone is suffering from a mental illness, the world around them seems to change and there is a sense of separation between them and the rest of society. Kaysen (1993) states, “And it is easy to slip into a parallel universe. There are so many of them: worlds of the insane, the criminal, the crippled, the dying, perhaps of the dead as well, these worlds exits alongside this world and resemble it, but are not in it” (p. 5). Kaysen does a good job illustrating a descent into this “parallel universe” as she discusses the experience of her roommate Georgina. Kaysen (1993) states, “She was in a theater watching a movie when a tidal wave of blackness broke over her head. The entire world was obliterated - for a few minutes. She knew she had gone crazy. She looked around the theater to see if it had happened to everyone, but all the other people were engrossed in the movie. She rushed out, because the darkness in the theater was too much when combined with the darkness in her head” (p. 5). Many things in the parallel universe are unpredictable.
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