Amanda Green (1)

My Alien Self by Amanda Green provides a fascinating window into the life of someone with a mental illness. Perhaps Green could have benefited from having some assistance with the organizational structure of the book, however, because her thoughts are translated to the page in a very disordered fashion. For example, at times, she breaks off from her narrative and starts merely listing experiences or side effects of her medication, as if she included her outline or notes into the final text without fleshing them out (or even putting them into complete sentences) for the reader's benefit. It would have been interesting to hear more about her diagnosis and treatment for borderline personality disorder, rather than so much about her abusive personal relationships and history of substance abuse, since the subject of her memoir is in fact supposed to be her life with and recovery from mental illness.… (mais)