Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin (Audiobook)

from Eye_Gee

I liked this book. Unlike some other reviewers I found a lot of dry humour in this memoir. And I found it intensely personal. What started out as an immersion journalism project, sort of an expose of the current state of psychiatric hospitals and our over-reliance on drugs to treat mental illness...

from frisbeesage

Norah Vncent is no stranger to mental illness or the institues and doctors who treat it. After a particularly harrowing experience she decides to check herself in to three different facilities and write about what she finds. She goes into the project with a clear idea of the injustice and drug ab...

from austinbarnes

I wasn't particularly fond of the writing style, but enjoyed reading the author's experiences. I hope I'm never committed to a state mental institution.

from tjsjohanna

Like many memoirs, this one captured my affection at the very end. The beginning chapters annoyed me. Ms. Vincent took the stance that all mental illness medication was terrible and over-prescribed and that doctors and health care workers really only cared about keeping people medicated. Her stan...

from Sararush

In Norah Vincent's last book she describes disguising herself and living as a man in every way imaginable for six months. She concludes that book by committing herself to a mental institution. Tough to top? Not for Vincent who turned that experience into the idea for this memoir. She would commit...