As an introduction, Mairs attempts to gain sympathy and personal connection with her readers by describing her physical disabilities due to MS (multiple sclerosis). She surrounds this description with how she has never seen any representation of her in the media, her tone insinuating either annoyance or depression. Depending on how a reader “hears” the narration in their head, the next paragraph can cause a little angst or frustration. Mairs turns from a sympathy-seeking cripple into a hostile contradicting writer. She states in the first paragraph “… I haven’t noticed any women like me on television…” yet her next paragraph is centered on a television show about a woman with MS. Mairs tries to redeem herself by describing how this woman’s emotional weakness, for running back to her doctor/love interest, is inaccurate, but that is mostly a sexist representation of women and less a misrepresentation of the disabled.
Christina describes her mother’s primary concerns centralized around how she wished to be perceived by others and the public image she wished to project 74-75). Her false displays of intimacy, excessive vanity, egocentricity, lack of empathy, and attention seeking behavior are evident in her interpersonal relationships and emotional neglect of her children. Her career as a film star exacerbated these negative personality traits (27, 83). Any affection she showed toward Christina usually took the form of a shallow nod of approval or pat on the head for performing tasks such as mixing alcoholic beverages for Joan and her guests or when in the presence of others, but in private her treatment of Christina was very cold and her parenting style was excessively rigid, strict, and authoritarian. She relied primarily on punishment (particularly corporal) and negative reinforcement to gain compliance and desired behavior.
For example, the poor memory system applies to the case study where Diane recalls to have trouble remembering whether she turned off the gas or not. According to cognitive perspective, patients with OCD have different obsessive thinking patterns which cannot be dismissed and often are misinterpreted leading to exaggerated sense of responsibility. This concept can be applied to Diane’s case where she took a big responsibility as a child for her mother’s life by obsessively praying for her safety. Individuals with OCD blame themselves for having these thoughts and for the terrible things that will happen as a consequence of them (Shafran, 2005). Another episode from the case study where Diane had intrusive obsessional thoughts of strangling her own children with the dressing gown cords suggests that Diane had maladaptive cognition and she believed that her thoughts would help to cause events (thought-action fusion) e.g.
Throughout her memoir, Jamison kept an idea of unity—between herself and friends, colleagues, and family—and persistence. Had her brother gone and acted like her sister (writing off her prescription to lithium as nothing more than being weak) and not checked in on her, the world only knows what other type of things she might have done while in a manic or depressive fit. She could have been bankrupt and broke had he not stepped in and helped with the aftermath of her manic phases, as well as their mother. “She cooked meal after meal for me during my long bouts of depression, helped me with my laundry, and helped pay my medical bills…Without her I never could have survived.” (p.118-9) From her first husband and their lasting friendship and her second, to her psychiatrist and other in-the-know colleagues, Kay has always had people there to keep an eye
People also tell me that I have a mental problem and that could be one of the reason I can’t get a job. I have mix emotions I can get real mad and stressed out that I will think of bad things to do to myself just to release the stress. I know it’s not good but anger problems runs in my family but I try to control it sometimes it work and other times it don’t. I am drug free I don’t even be around it any more. I am struggling trying to take care of my family without losing my family.
Repetition of three words, 'I,I,I' and 'saw,saw,saw' could be to represent nervousness, to show blanche's anxious jumpy nature, makes the audience question why she is so damaged. It has something to do with death. Also the repetition of certain words in topics of conversation, such as funeral, the use of those constantly being repeated and emphasised. Almost childish "trying to wind her sister up" shows a childish side to her, slightly mean side. Repeats Stella's name, could be as not to loose her trip on reality or loose her sanity, amongst her painful recollections from belle reve.
Melina Marchetta’s novel Saving Francesca is written from the point of view of Francesca, a sixteen year old girl who has moved to a new school and is trying to cope with her mother’s depression. Having the main character relating the story allows the reader to feel close to Francesca as the reader can understand her thoughts and feelings. However, because the story is told through Francesca’s eyes the reader has to rely on Francesca’s assessment of a situation. In many ways Francesca is an unreliable narrator. She does not fully understand what is happening to her mother and many of her comments about her mother are incorrect.
The author uses different adjectives to describe to the reader the appearance and personality of Curley’s wife. The fact that Steinbeck refers to her as “A girl” may show her immature desire for attention, and the fact that she wore mainly red symbolizes blood and danger which also hints to the reader that she is a mesmerizing but dangerous woman. Curley’s wife was “heavily made up” which suited the description that Candy gave to George – a tart. However, this may symbolize that she is wearing a mask and is not showing her true persona, and we find that later on in the novel she truly reveals herself to Lennie. This enforces the idea that unlike Lennie, she is a complex character in the novel.
This would make some readers feel pity for Mayella as she is lamenting due to horrific flashbacks she may encounter, others may think that this is a cover up as she knows what she is doing is wrong, and she is trying to get the judge and the jury to side with her. This technique is used by Lee to make the ruler think and engage the readers. This view shared with Jem: “she’s got enough sense to get the judge sorry for her, but she might just be just – oh, I don’t know”. Here Harper Lee shows the mental controversy of the characters as that the trial has brought on
When completing an assessment for Andrea, it should heavily consider biological, family and cultural considerations to justify her diagnosis as well as her treatment plan and goals. Andrea’s relationships amongst peers, friends and her ex-husband may have become triggers for her maladaptive behaviors such as her binge eating. Andrea reported being bullied and frequent arguments with her mother about her excessive eating. During her adolescence, Andrea does not report binge eating but does express she would “nibble throughout the day”; her lack of feeling accepted by her peers and mother may have help developed her cognitive distortions and become a future antecedent to her binging episodes. This consideration would help breakdown the emotional significance behind her marriage and divorce as another trigger to her eating