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Clearly a raw, emotional read that would connect with teen girls going through similar tumultuous experiences but the book ended so abruptly and lacked narrative conclusion - it is a memoir so sometimes life doesn't have a neat and tidy ending but I finished reading this book wanting more.

The book does a great job of describing just how teenage depression feels. There is no neat clean happy ending but there usually isn't. Consider this more of a glimpse into her life rather than a entire story with a clear beginning and end.

Felt incomplete. Couldn't connect with the main character. (Maybe this was intentional?) Not a fan of the art.

The author writes about how she had a nervous breakdown and spent some time in an institution where she finally learned how to take care of herself. As you go through the book you get her friends opinions on what is going on with her and how they weren't always able to see the problems. The reader also gets to see Stacy's past and how some things that happened when she was younger directly affected her behavior's as an adult.

I thought this did a great job showing how things that happen when your younger can directly affect your mental health when you're older without the person even realizing it. I believe that the perspective of her various friends also told us a lot about the kind of person Stacey was and the changes she went through without being preachy about it. The black and white illustrations were perfect. They fit the serious tone of the story and let the subject really shine through.

The author writes about how she had a nervous breakdown and spent some time in an institution where she finally learned how to take care of herself. As you go through the book you get her friends opinions on what is going on with her and how they weren't always able to see the problems. The reader also gets to see Stacy's past and how some things that happened when she was younger directly affected her behavior's as an adult.

I thought this did a great job showing how things that happen when your younger can directly affect your mental health when you're older without the person even realizing it. I believe that the perspective of her various friends also told us a lot about the kind of person Stacey was and the changes she went through without being preachy about it. The black and white illustrations were perfect. They fit the serious tone of the story and let the subject really shine through.

The author writes about how she had a nervous breakdown and spent some time in an institution where she finally learned how to take care of herself. As you go through the book you get her friends opinions on what is going on with her and how they weren't always able to see the problems. The reader also gets to see Stacy's past and how some things that happened when she was younger directly affected her behavior's as an adult.

I thought this did a great job showing how things that happen when your younger can directly affect your mental health when you're older without the person even realizing it. I believe that the perspective of her various friends also told us a lot about the kind of person Stacey was and the changes she went through without being preachy about it. The black and white illustrations were perfect. They fit the serious tone of the story and let the subject really shine through.

The author writes about how she had a nervous breakdown and spent some time in an institution where she finally learned how to take care of herself. As you go through the book you get her friends opinions on what is going on with her and how they weren't always able to see the problems. The reader also gets to see Stacy's past and how some things that happened when she was younger directly affected her behavior's as an adult.

I thought this did a great job showing how things that happen when your younger can directly affect your mental health when you're older without the person even realizing it. I believe that the perspective of her various friends also told us a lot about the kind of person Stacey was and the changes she went through without being preachy about it. The black and white illustrations were perfect. They fit the serious tone of the story and let the subject really shine through.

Well done graphic memoir.

Eh. Not terribly compelling, with mediocre art. The graphic novel aspect might be a selling point, but prose options like Girl, Interrupted or It's Kind of a Funny Story are much stronger options in the nervous breakdown-psych ward genre.

I’ve been excited about HOW I MADE IT TO EIGHTEEN since I first saw it in the publisher’s catalog. An autobiographical graphic novel, this is the story of a girl who checks herself in to a psych ward after realizing that her problems are just too much for one person to cope with. It’s the story of how she comes to terms with addiction and depression and neglect. How the struggle has shaped her and how she has to work to overcome it. Told both in comics and in prose narrative — a style you might recognize from the author, Tracy White‘s, website, TRACED — HOW I MADE IT TO EIGHTEEN is as gripping as it is heartbreaking, and I’m hoping that teens will pick it up and realize that they are not the only ones struggling.

Hadn't picked up this book for a long time because the simple line drawings hadn't really appealed to me. Couldn't put it down after I started it. The slow pace of life in the mental hospital gave Tracy White enough space to try to sort out what's been behind her depression.

Along the lines of "Go Ask Alice," but not as graphic in the depictions of drug abuse. I enjoyed seeing commentary from Stacy's friends interwoven throughout the story.

Filled with tears and laughter, I found this book quite grand. I felt that I really understood the author's point of view in such a way that made me understand myself a bit more.

I loved that the author really got down deep and opened us up through telling the truth.

This book should be read and shared amongst friends, relatives and coworkers. I recommend this book for anyone who knows of or has experienced a part in their life where they needed a time out and needed a chance to heal.

Lots of good stuff here. The art is extremely spare, which suggests both the isolation/blunt affect of depression and the bare institutional feel of a treatment facility. It's not an overly dramatic Hollywood-ization of the type that so frequently shows up in teen lit narratives about mental illness and drug abuse and eating disorders - it's pretty realistic, as far as I can tell (according to the author, it's a largely true account, so that makes sense). The monologues from Stacy's friends are a cool addition - they really add to the depth of the story.