Similarities Between Lars And The Real Girl

Lars and the real girl portrayed many psychological disorders. Many of the symptoms points at schizophrenia. Schizophrenia affects how someone thinks, feels, and acts. People get this disorder that is characterized by a loss of contact with reality. Lars has withdrawn or lack of social skills in the office. Lars talks to Margo in a completely awkward way. He doesn’t show affection to her and hides all his emotion by using Bianca to block them. He is not willing in his head to accept Margo as he doesn’t have enough willpower to. Bianca has been then just a cover up of his emotion so he doesn’t have to go through them. When Lars went bowling with Margo he was talking to her out in the parking lot. Nevertheless Lars kept to himself and
Actions like these can cause major disorders starting at a young age. Usually disorders stimulate from an ugly childhood that had a lot of misfortunes. Another disorder that I think fits Lars is Schizoid personality disorder. This disorder avoids relationships and does not show much emotion. Accordingly to many professionals, the people with this disorder usually seek jobs with little to know social contact. You can extremely see this in the office where Lars works. When someone talks to him, he usually shies away and try to say as little as possible. He shows no confidence as he slouches and has his head hanging down a lot. Consequently, this really hurts Lars in many situations. He has a set striving bar as it is very tough to get a promotion at a job when you have no confidence in oneself. Lars prefers to be alone just like what the schizoid symptoms are. Whenever his brother and his wife ask him over for dinner, he shies away and says no. His own family wants to have dinner with him and he is too uncomfortable to be with them and create social contact with them. It is very said, looking on as friends and family of Lars having this disease. You want nothing less than them to be happy, but upsetting roadblocks