Diagnosing Septimus Smith Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf’s novel, Mrs. Dalloway, features a severely mentally ill man named Septimus Smith. Throughout the novel the reader glimpses moments of Septimus’s dementia and how his poor frazzled wife, Rezia, deals with him. Septimus, who has returned from the war and met Rezia in Italy on his discharge, has a seriously skewed version of reality. He has been through traumatic events during the war, including the death of his commanding officer and friend, Evans. Upon his return to England he suffers from hallucinations, he hears voices (especially Evans’), and he believes that the trees have a special message to convey to him.
“The disease had sharpened my senses --not destroyed --not dulled them” (Allen Poe 387), after reading the story a few times I think the disease was Schizophrenia. That would explain his so called hearing of all things in heaven and on earth and the delusion he had at the end of the story of freaking out because of hearing the beating heart with the cops. Maybe he’s even a patient with Schizophrnia in a psych ward telling a story. {Work Cited} Allen Poe, Edgar. “Tell-Tale Heart.” Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing.
During these times with Frank, he discovers the laws of the universe that govern his life. Donnie’s mental illness causes him to confuse real life with imaginary and he struggles to contain his perception of time while fighting schizophrenia threating to take control. Donnie Darko and the Psychological Aspects in the Film There is a nice slice of the world’s population are diagnosed with mental disorders. These people will swear the most outrageous scenarios are true, because in their mind they are. In one of the more serious cases of mental disorders, people claim to hear voices coming from inside their own heads and this can eventually cause them to believe they are two or more different people.
Antisocial Personality Disorder or (ASPD) and Schizophrenia fall into the classification of a Psychotic Disorder. In this analysis of "The Tell-Tale Heart," there will be several examples of how the actions of the narrator are "text book" examples of Anxiety and Psychotic Disorders. The first disorder that the narrator gave perfect example of is OCD. "OCD is an anxiety disorder characterized by intrusive thoughts that produce uneasiness, apprehension, fear, or worry; by repetitive behaviors aimed at reducing the associated anxiety; or by a combination of such obsession and compulsion" ("Obsessive-compulsive disorder"). Now to better understand all that let us look into what mainly drives and individual with OCD.
Madness in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Hamlet" Summary: How mental illness is portrayed in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey and "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare. "Cuckoo's Nest" looks directly at mental illness and how it can be a natural reaction to life in the modern world. "Hamlet" looks at mental illness more indirectly in Hamlet's tortured inner dialogue and how it affects others. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The issue of madness has been touched by many writers. In this paper I will focus on two important writings which deal directly with the mental illnesses.
Schizophrenia: A Complex Mental Illness Schizophrenia, a Greek term referring to the splitting of the mind, is a complex neuropsychiatric disorder that has long played a significant role in the history of mental diseases. Schizophrenia is a chronic mental illness that undoubtedly affects the way one thinks, behaves, and perceives the world around them. The disease is dominated by three separate categories of symptoms that allow professionals to make more accurate diagnosis and therefore treat the patient accordingly. Someone who suffers from this illness cannot clearly decipher between reality and the delusions or hallucinations of his or her imagination. Schizophrenia causes a severe decline in the thought process, inappropriate emotional
For the purpose of this paper we will discuss a patient’s view of bipolar disorder. For the confidentiality of the patient we will refer to this patient as Jane. When Jane was admitted to Frye Regional Medical Center, South Campus. She was in the “mania” stage of bipolar. She was extremely agitated.
He also has displays symptoms of psychosis manifested in his delusional and grandiose behavior as well as his self- reports of hallucinations. Thirdly, T.M. should be admitted back into a substance rehabilitation program. He has undergone rehabilitation programs before, but it seems as if he was unsuccessful as seen by his continued usage of alcohol, cocaine, and marijuana. These unsuccessful attempts may be attributed to his psychological issues in which he was using the substances to cope with.
Those feelings of sadness, anger, and loneliness that the narrator feels had started to gradually turn into madness as the days went by. In the end of the story everything goes wrong. The house of Usher falls and crumbles to the ground. The Fall of the House of Usher holds the tale, how one man struggles losing his loved ones from Tuberculosis and shows Gothicism. When the narrator is riding towards the house, he suddenly gets these feelings that he did not enjoy.
Bipolar Disorder: Silver Linings Playbook Julia Jones Willamette University Abstract Bipolar disorder is a mood disorder characterized by alternating episodes of mania and depression. The novel, Silver Linings Playbook, accurately portrays this disorder. Throughout the novel, the main character Pat Peoples struggles with the symptoms of his diagnosis and the effects that they have on his life. The story begins when Pat is released from a neural health facility. Once he is back in his parent’s home he attempts to gain his life back by reuniting with his ex-wife Nikki.