[descriptions from goodreads]
Hannah Westberg has gone through more trauma in her eighteen years than many people will experience in a lifetime. Stemming from her depression and recently diagnosed borderline personality disorder, Hannah has engaged in dangerous behavior and has paid a high price. By the time she was in eighth grade, Hannah was cutting, popping pills, skipping class, and drinking. The following summer, she tried to commit suicide for the first time. Since then, she has had stints in the psych ward, worked with numerous therapists, gone on anti-depressants, and gotten better, only to slip up and relapse, repeating the whole cycle again.
As told through powerfully written vignettes, Hannah is a personal account of the author's life with mental illness and the plethora of related problems that continue to arise through her day-to-day struggle to cope with her demons.
Review:Hannah is another emotional, sad, but great read from the Louder Than Words series.
I wish the memoir wasn't grouped up by events instead of being linear because I am obsessive like that, but I really liked Hannah's memoir. Well, not liked because it totally sucks that she went through all this horrible stuff, but you know what I mean.
It's crazy to think that most of the things that happened in the memoir happened in such a short amount of time-- something bad is constantly occurring, which makes for an interesting read, but it's also a bit emotionally draining. Hannah's feelings about all these occurrences are described well, and it's difficult not to be moved by her story.
Hannah is the kind of book that does not really exist in fiction, because no book describes mental illness, cutting, and other various sad things as believably and emotionally as this one.
Book details: HCI Teens/Paperback/$7.95
Source: sent for review by publisher through TLC Book Tours
(Can you tell I am not good at reviewing memoirs?)
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