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I wanted to know more about the girl interrupted story--so I checked the book out and rented the film. It was painful to watch and the book, quite different from the film ends on a different note. The title of the book comes from the Vermeer painting "Girl Interrupted at Her Music" and as I considered the book and the painting, I began thinking about times of big change or disequilibrium in a human life span and how we label those as a society. We have the terrible twos, marriage/divorce/death of a loved one adjustment periods, post-partum, adolescence, teen angst/rebellion, middle life crises, and menopause to name a few. Please add others as they occur to you--I think that language can reveal a lot and I'm interested to hear of other "labels" for periods of upset or disequilibrium in human life.