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    But Inside I'm Screaming

    By Elizabeth Flock

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    While breaking the hottest news story of the year, broadcast journalist Isabel Murphy falls apart on live television in front of an audience of millions. She lands at Three Breezes, a four-star psychiatric hospital nicknamed the "nut hut," where she begins the painful process of recovering the life everyone thought she had.

    But accepting her place among her fellow patients proves difficult, and Isabel struggles to reconcile the fact that she is, indeed, one of them. As she faces the reality that in order to mend her painfully fractured life she must rely solely on herself, she must also accept an imperfect life in a world that demands perfection.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarlequin MIRA
    Release dateOct 1, 2012
    ISBN9781459241169
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    Elizabeth Flock

    ELIZABETH FLOCK is an Emmy Award–winning journalist whose work has been featured in the New Yorker, the New York Times, and the Atlantic, and on PBS NewsHour and Netflix, among other outlets. She is the host of Blind Plea, a podcast from Lemonada Media about criminalized survival. Her reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center, PEN America, and the International Women’s Media Foundation. Her first book, The Heart Is a Shifting Sea, won a Nautilus Book Award for books that inspire and make a difference. She lives in Chicago and Los Angeles.

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    • 2/5
      I was underwhelmed by this one. It starts off interesting, Isabel is a reporter who messes up her "big chance" by freezing up during a special report. This triggers a suicide attempt, and she ends up at institutionalized at Three Breezes, a psychiatric hospital. The story jumps backwards and forwards in time, showing Isabel as a highly sensitive and unhappy child and as an adult woman with a demanding job and an abusive husband. Unfortunately, as the story progressed, I grew to care about Isabel less and less. I was never sold on her relationship with her husband, Alex - what was so great about him that she would stay with such an abusive and unpleasant person? I dislike the simplicity of the "her father was absent so she craves male attention to the point of accepting abuse" story, and the way it was written I just kept thinking "why doesn't she leave him??" Then there is Isabel's attitude in the hospital. She acts like a brat. Her hostility towards the other patients, whom she looks down her nose at and insults, even as they try to make friends with her, made me think of her as an unpleasant, mean spirited person. How could a girl who cried over her brothers stepping on ants, have so little empathy for lonely, damaged human beings reaching out to her for help?Isabel's fellow patients often open up to her (for some reason) and then the narrative switches and tells their story. All the while Isabel thinks about what losers they are, sometimes she is momentarily amused that she heard about their breakdown on the news. I would have liked to have seen those individual stories given more room and attention. Despite being a novel built around psychological problems, no one is given much depth of character - the supporting characters are given a couple pages of backstory to explain why they are at Three Breezes, and then forgotten as Isabel doesn't really care about them.When Isabel is told she has to go for an ECT (electro-shock therapy) she freaks out and cries about it but then doesn't object when given the option. I felt like I was reading a much poorer version of Plath's The Bell Jar. My recommendation would be to stick to Sylvia Plath and leave this one on the shelf.

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    • 5/5
      I really enjoyed this book. As someone who has been in therapy and suffers from depression I thought Ms. Flock accurately portrayed the emotions and feelings of someone suffering from depression. Very well done!
    • 2/5
      I read a review of this book, and it appealed to me, as I am generally interested in books which deal with such subject matters as depression, mental illness and suicide. However, I found it really difficult to finish this book - in fact, I dropped it twice, only to try again, and still didn't get to the end! Overall, I found it a total letdown. This is not a well written or interesting book, and none of the characters appealed to me in any way.
    • 2/5
      Not nearly as good as Emma & Me. The main character is someone you want to shake and tell "Stop feeling sorry for yourself!" There are so many better books about mental illness out there. This one is a waste of time.
    • 5/5
      This is a riveting tale of the journey of a woman, Isabel, who is spiraling downward into a abyss of mental illness, all while trying to continue to work as a television anchor for a major news station. When she finally has an episode (breakdown) just as she is going on the air to report about Princess Diana's car accident, she finds herself at the lowest point in her life, and ends up committed to a mental institution called Three Breezes. While at the mental facility, Isabel goes from practically catatonic to angry to fearful, all the while feeling like she does not belong in a place "like this". She works with a therapist/doctor named Dr. Seidler, who seems to have Isabel's best interests at heart, but Isabel does not trust her.....at first.Isabel's issues seem to stem from a father who, although present in the home, was always too busy with his job to give Isabel the time and attention she craved. Her mother always seemed disappointed in Isabel, never good enough to merit praise.Isabel married a man who was almost the exact opposite of her father, a man who demanded all of Isabel's time and attention, to the point where he became verbally and physically abusive if she did not live up to his expectations.The story takes the reader through Isabel's long journey through life in a mental hospital, as she forms bonds with many of the other patients, and slowly but surely begins to come out of her inner prison of mental anguish after agreeing to receive electroshock therapy, as a last resort, suggested by Dr. Seidler.The ending of the book was satisfying and overall the story was totally absorbing. I couldn't put it down. The author writes with a smooth flow that puts you right into the midst of the story and doesn't let you go. I would highly recommend this book and look forward to reading more by this excellent author!
    • 5/5
      I liked this novel a lot. It reminded me in some ways of The Bell Jar…and I connected with this book in a way I haven’t a book since that time. Elizabeth Flock has written two novels I have immensely enjoyed. I’m glad I picked them both up on a whim one Sunday before work.
    • 3/5
      I loved Girl Interupted, both the book and the movie. And based on a couple of reviews I read on this book, I decided to give it a shot. I read the entire book, keep in mind. This book is extremely flat with very unlikable characters and a narrator who is not only psychotic, but boring as well. As I read it, I kept hoping it would get better. The book also has an extremely large font (I didn't buy a large print version) which makes it seem cheesier. So I didn't love this.