A couple of years before the events described in the movie, she took an overdose had her stomach pumped. Strange, as it may seem but we know nothing about her family, relatives or friends. She voluntarily checks herself into the psychiatric hospital and at first seems to be the sanest patient in the institution. However soon after this she demands to be discharged. Susanna is diagnosed with borderline personality disorder that is characterized by emotional disturbance.
Girl Interrupted is about the story of a nineteen year old girl during the 1960's named Susanna who, after a suicide attempt, gets admitted into a psychiatric institution (Claymore) and is diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. During her stay at the Claymore Hospital, Susanna quickly becomes familiar to a number of the institution's residents. These residents included Georgina, a pathological liar, Polly, a terminally fearful burn victim, Daisy, an incest victim and extremely withdrawn agoraphobic and Lisa, a charming, but manipulating sociopath. The focus of this paper will be the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment that Susanna experiences throughout the film. Borderline personality disorder is characterized by extreme shifts in mood lasting only a few hours at a time.
I fly so fast that I end up paranoid and out of it.” As per K; she was sexually abused by an uncle at age 15. She states that her older sister was also sexually abused during that same period of time. K states that she repressed the memories of her sexual abuse for many years and only recently recovered them. Her first admission to a psychiatric hospital occurred at age 15 and she states that she has had multiple admissions thereafter including a sixth month stay at Sagamore Children’s Psychiatric Hospital. She states that her most recent psychiatric admission was at Southside Hospital where she was admitted with a diagnosis of psychosis.
Criminal behavior has spurned many debates on nurturing kids vs. the nature of kids but have all concluded in agreeing that genes and environment play an important, and defining role, in the Biological Criminality of a person. “Andrea Yates was born on July 2, 1964, in Houston, Texas. She was found guilty of first degree murder and sentenced to life, but a court of appeals reversed the conviction and found her insane. In 1999, Yates was treated for postpartum depression and psychosis, illnesses that ran in her family. After the birth of her fifth child and the death of her father, she went into a severe depression and was forcefully admitted to Devereux-Texas Treatment Network.
She got beat up every time she drank. For her husband it was terrible. He had to worry about the kids every time he left the house. He feared for the safety of his children. For her kids it was the worst.
Throughout both Harriet’s and Frederick’s life, they both had experienced very traumatic events. These events include physical and emotional punishment or abuse that they received. Although they experienced different types of punishments from their slave owners, it left both of them feeling embarrassed, vulnerable, and angry. Harriet received sexual harassment and emotional punishment from her owners at the young age of fifteen by Mr. Flint. He would show her naughty pictures, talk to her in a vulgar way, and eventually touch her physically.
It makes me cringe everytime I hear it, knowing that those who are in the LGBTQ+ community feel even worse. “It’s painful. It makes me feel like I’m nothing. It makes me feel ashamed of who I am, even though I shouldn’t
People of all cultures have been oppressed at some point in history. The Jewish people were persecuted in Egypt, And in Germany. But for some reason they feel that the oppression they went through was so much worse and that is pure
A prime example to show depression is described in the book, Helping your Depressed Teenager. Leeta sat slumped in her chair. Disheveled and distracted, she answered questions in a vague and unconfused manner. Only 13 years old, this was her second extended psychiatric hospitalization for depression, suicidal thoughts, and destructive gestures. She was first admitted to the hospital after she slit her wrists with a knife; this is the time she had become despondent, irritable, and out of control at home.
There is a great movie that just appeared in theater called Side Effects starring Rooney Mara, Channing Tatum, Jude Law, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Vinessa Shaw. It is about a woman who falls into a clinical depression after her and her husband have to readjust to a new life in a new town after his release from prison and being involved in a car crash. The woman begins to see a psychiatrist who then prescribes her medication to help relieve her anxiety. The medication then causes a blur between fantasy and reality to the point she commits murder but has no recollection of it. She tries to fight it and blame it on her psychiatrist because he knew of the side effects of the medication, and had told her she was fine and had done nothing to regulate the medication.