Instead of reading “The Quiet Room”, I listened to it as an audiobook and this gave me an interesting perspective. I felt that I could experience some of Lori’s voices as she was suffering them. The vicious voices were extremely scary – I was so frightened by them. I only experienced them for short quick periods throughout the book and I cannot imagine living constantly with them. Since Lori was only a little younger than me when she first started to hear the voices, I really felt that I could sort of relate to her, at least in age. It was extremely difficult for me then to see her battles with the mental illness. All I wanted to do was help her and get rid of the voices and hallucinations. From reading this book, I learned how painful this