Does anyone know which types of pills Plath was taking towards the end of her life, the ones prescribed by Dr.Horder? It's always been described as her "going to sleep" pills and her "waking up" pills, but nothing else.

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This was originally posted to my personal journal, but i thought it related to the topic of this community so i figured I'd post it here too.

I just finished Prozac Nation so I decided to check my Amazon.com reccomendations to see if anything sounded interesting. It looked like a summer reading list for a suicidal 16 year old girl. Slyvia Plath, ( Read more... )

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NAME: i go by "lekker" (which means "delicious" in dutch...i lived in amsterdam for awhile)
AGE: 34
FAVORITE FEMALE WRITERS/POETS WITH THEMES OF MADNESS? well, my college thesis paper was on kate chopin's , so i guess i have to include that and others include but are not limited to: kathy acker, jeanette winterson, duong thu huong, karen finley, ( Read more... )

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As I started reading a novel by Herbjorg Wassmo yesterday, I remembered that this is one of my favorite mad women:


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Behold! I found upon her something neither of woman nor of man: in each of her eyes sat a devil. These evil forces bore her through tragedy [...] They wrote HELL on her straight, haughty brow. They turned her voice to the note of torment. They writhed her regal face to a demonic mask. Hate and Murder and Madness incarnate, she stood. [---]Wicked, ( Read more... )

Name: Nicole, but everyone calls me Coley.
Age: 20
Favorite female writers/poets with themes of madness? Plath (my favorite), Woolf, Wurtzel, Kaysen, Sexton, Parker, Stevie Smith, etc.
Favorite books on madness? The Bell Jar, Prozac Nation, Girl Interrupted, etc.
Favorite films which document or hint at "women & madness"? Sylvia, Mrs. Dalloway, etc ( Read more... )