these might be some good books

 In Fun Home , by Alison Bechdel, a lot of topics in the novel are related to her upbringing, and how it shaped her life in the future. One thing I did notice though is the way that she was raised really affected her life choices in her later life. Being raised to model someone who is straight, dresses like a traditional girl would, and overall act like a straight woman, while knowing deep down that she is none of those things truly shaped her. The way Bruce raised her was so that she wouldn't end up like him, he was worried, but this merely delayed her from finding her true self. I kind of thought about it like reverse psychology. The more someone tells you not to do something, the more you want to do it. The more Bruce raised her like a straight woman, the more she wanted to be herself and explore. He only delayed the inevitable, not prevented it. I think he was more concerned about her becoming a version of him, which he didn't want, as he was doing some shady things behind

 In The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, we see an early representation of mental health institutions, and how bad they were compared to now. If we look at mental health institutions now, we don't typically see electroshock therapy being used, more things are focused on bettering the person instead of electrocuting them until they conform to society's standards. The use of lobotomization is also a much more frowned upon practice, as they were done very unprofessionally in their early days, where they were named icepick lobotomies, super ineffective and unsafe, and especially unsanitary procedures that would be a tool, most commonly an icepick, being placed through a patient's eye and going through to the brain, and disconnecting certain nerve endings. No anesthesia was used in these procedures either, and we see a character in the novel who has undergone a lobotomy and it completely changes a person's behaviors and mannerisms. I believe if this book took place in more modern t