For the final project‚ I have chosen to use a character from the movie Girl‚ Interrupted. Susanna 18-month stay at a mental institution opening scence- in restraints‚ injection of valium “you should check my hands‚ no bones in it” wrists all brusied Dr called her wrist banger. “sometimes its hard for me to stay in one place. psychiatrist asked her how she picked up the aspirin if she had no bones in her hand “by then they came back” truly believes this when doctor asked her to explain
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She took a strong‚ emotional interest in him when she first saw him at the book launch. “Extreme reactions—including panic‚ depression‚ rage‚ or frantic actions—to abandonment‚ whether real or perceived” (Borderline Personality Disorder‚ n.d.)‚ is one of the signs of BPD. Alex showed this symptom when after Dan tried to leave her‚ she showed frantic actions of suicidal tendencies along with destruction of property. Also‚ other signs are: Impulsive and often dangerous
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Dialectical Behavior Therapy in Borderline Personality Disorder People with borderline personality disorder can be challenging to treat‚ because of the nature of the disorder. Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) can be defined as a mental health condition in which a person has long-term patterns of unstable or turbulent emotions (US National Library of Medicine‚ 2013). They are often difficult to keep in therapy‚ frequently fail to respond to therapeutic efforts and make considerable demands
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Borderline Personality Disorder Mental Health Treatment Although psychiatric hospitalization may often be used to address the suicidal and other safety crises of individuals with BPD‚ it is unclear how beneficial that intervention is. In contrast‚ partial hospitalization has shown some promise as an intervention for individuals with BPD who are not in imminent danger of mortally harming themselves or others. Partial hospitalization involves the sufferer receiving intensive mental health treatment
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Cigarettes Caffeine: Coffee‚ Soda ABUSE HISTORY Sexual: None reported Physical: Pt reports physical abuse by mother Emotional: Pt reports emotional abuse by mother and father Rape Trauma: None reported Domestic Violence: None reported EATING DISORDERS Anorexia Nervosa: Have you ever deliberately lost so much weight on a diet that people started to seriously worry about your health? Bulimia nervosa: Did you ever have a problem with binge eating‚ when you would eat so much food so fast that it
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Susanna Kaysen‚ in her memoir Girl‚ Interrupted‚ recounts her eighteen-month stay at a psychiatric hospital in Massachusetts. The events in the book took place in the 1960’s‚ meaning outside the hospital’s reinforced walls‚ the world was bustling with racism‚ social activism‚ and the Vietnam War. The story is not told as a chronological series of events‚ but rather as a collection of memories‚ darting between various periods of Kaysen’s visit. Throughout her stay at the hospital‚ Kaysen met a variety
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The film titled Girl‚ Interrupted tells a story about a young woman‚ named Susanna‚ who was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder‚ due to‚ her erratic behaviour and attempting suicide by consuming an entire bottle of pills. Susanna’s parents‚ especially‚ find her actions to be a burden and problematic and collectively make a life changing decision for their “troubled” daughter. After consulting a psychiatrist‚ Susanna is sent to a psychiatric hospital to treat her new diagnosed mental illness
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Abstract This paper analyses the Borderline Personality Disorder. The analysis is based on the movie " Girl Interrupted". This movie is based on a true story of Susanna Kaysen. The paper presents the description of disorder based on DSM-IV-TR and The National Institute of Mental Health [NIMH]. Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is characterized by impulsivity‚ unstable and intense interpersonal relationships‚ an unstable self-image‚ frantic efforts to avoid perceived abandonment‚ inappropriate
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Characters in the texts; “As you like it”‚ the play by Shakespeare‚ “Standing in the shoes of others”‚ the speech by Linda Burney and “Girl Interrupted” the 1999 film directed by James Mangold‚ find a sense of belonging under the influence of place. A physical place is often symbolic of whether a character feels accepted. Characters relationship with their external environment often conveying how the character feels they fit in with the world around them. The river that bisects the work is a
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The 1993 classic Girl Interrupted‚ written by Susanna Kaysen‚ is a series of nonfiction pieces about her 18 months spent in a mental institution in the late 1960s. The pieces are mostly chronological‚ and in between chapters she shows real files from her stay at the institution (doctors notes‚ discharge papers‚ etc.). Throughout the fragmentary novel‚ Susanna questions her sanity and fights for self realization. James Marigold adapted the memoir into a film in 1999. The movie is loosely based off
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