Go Ask Alice - Anonymous pg. 111-170

I noticed that in this book, things seem to change very quickly. One minute she is on drugs and the next shes with clean, at her house with her family. It seems so unreal to me, but I obviously don't live the same lifestyle as she does. Where I left off, she was basically at her lowest point. She was homeless, poor, and on drugs. She would do just about anything to get her hands on something to get her high. She doesn't know what time, date, or even year it is. She is living for nothing but drugs. One day, she stumbles across a church, and talks to the priest who understands young people. The priest calls her parents, and the cycle begins yet again. Her parents are absolutely ecstatic to hear from her. They beg her to return home, and she agrees. After a few more days of wandering the streets, she begins her journey home. On her way, she rereads what she had written over the last few weeks in her journal. She was appalled by her own writing! She thought it was all a lie, because she didn't believe any of it. She stated that someone evil and foul wrote her journal. She considered herself insane. Since she was "getting her life back on track" because she was going home, she decided to start a new journal to go along with her "new life". When she got home, she was the happiest girl on the planet. She hung out with her family, went back to school, and started getting back into the swing of things. People at school still considered her a druggie and tormented her about it, but other than that, things seemed to be going alright. She keeps going to school, spends a lot of time studying, and then things go down hill. Her grandpa has a stroke, and eventually passes away. People at school really start hassling her about drugs, and her family is devastated about their loss. Kids start threatening her, putting joints in her purse trying to get her in trouble. She started going to the universities library where her father worked. She met a boy named Joel, and she adores him. They begin to really like eachother, and her family likes him too. Unfortunately, her grandmother passes away, and once again her family was upset. Everything was going alright, when all of a sudden a the book changed drastically. It went from good, to bad in one post. I had to reread it because I thought I took it wrong. She was in an insane asylum. She was talking about her hands all bandaged up because they looked like raw hamburger, and how chunks of her hair was missing. Her body was one big bruise, and I was so confused. She was having weird dreams about maggots eating her away .. It was so weird. Finally, I found out someone drugged her drink while she was babysitting. She went into the closet and hurt herself until she couldn't anymore. Her hands were completely raw, her hair was gone and her entire body was either bloody or bruised. She was basically in a body cast. Someone put a bad mix of drugs into her drink and she didn't know it, and had a bad trip. Its terrible.

I feel bad for her, because she was finally getting back on track. Her life was beginning to be somewhat normal again, and she was starting to be happy again. People were so brutal to her for no reason. After all the things that she went through, she went into an insane asylum for something she didn't even do. Its absurd to me! I'm angry just writing about it and I don't even know the girl. She made a lot of mistakes, but I feel bad for her.