Reviews for Life Inside: A Memoir

The average rating for Life Inside: A Memoir based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-11-18 00:00:00 Lindsey Gautreaux I'm the author, so I can't review it, except to say that aside from being my story, it's also the story of an era in psychiatry and a cautionary tale about misdiagnosis, as well as an exploration of adolescence. Writing this book changed my life, and I will never write another like it. Thank you for reading and reviewing it.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-05-17 00:00:00 Marlen Brandox In reading Mindy's book, I wanted to shout out loud, "Yes! Yes! That is exactly how it was!" so many times, since I was also locked away on a mental ward and mislabeled a "chronic undifferentiated schizophrenic." Her skill in telling her story and my story and the story of so many other young people who went through the experience of being locked up and drugged and brainwashed with self-doubt, and then fought through the even much tougher experience of building some sort of a sane, decent life afterward is diamond-like. By "diamond-like," I mean her writing is clean and sharp, not dull; she uses her pen like a sword which does not have any blunt edge. Mindy is at once an artist and a warrior. I am thankful for each word that she has written.