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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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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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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Girl Interrupted and Suicide By: Kimberly Polly English 102 Section 1 Professor Diane Emmolo 8/12/06 Outline: I. Brief Film Synopsis II. Suicide statistics a.) men vs. women b.) suicide rates for ages III. Thesis Personal feelings caution IV. Causes V. Treatments a.) types VI. Facts signs VII. Conclusion Kimberly Polly English 102 Research Paper Girl Interrupted and Suicide The 1999 Oscar winning film Girl Interrupted starring Angelina Jolie is based on
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One popular cultural myth about the mentally ill is the archetype of the "Sexy Crazy Girl"‚ which we’ve seen in movies‚ comic books‚ and music. Losing your grip with reality is not a glamorous subject‚ but that’s not what you get from Girl‚ Interrupted. It is apparent that all the girls in the movie had some type of dysfunctional personality‚ and bad things happen to some of them‚ but it just did not seem realistic. First off‚ most of the patients prtrayed were young‚ which made the care facility
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Self-injury Self-injury is a behavior in which people deliberately harm their own bodies in some way to cope with overwhelming emotions. Self-injury frequently is an impulsive act. You may become upset and spontaneously seek a way to hurt yourself‚ recklessly doing damage to their body. Other times‚ self-injury may be inflicted in a controlled‚ methodical manner. You may even plan it in advance‚ taking steps to avoid detection and to prevent infections. This act of behavior is not an attempt
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Susanna Kaysen is the author of Girl Interrupted‚ her memoirs that explore a two-year period that she spent as a patient in a mental institution for young women. Split into three sections‚ mind versus brain‚ the clinical definition of a borderline personality disorder‚ and her diagnosis‚ her memoirs serve as an argument against her clinical diagnosis. In "Mind vs. Brain" we are given a layman’s introduction to psychology. Kaysen‚ through the use of various writing techniques‚ explains to the average
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him the name. There have been many movie adaptations of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland‚ Tim Burton’s 2010 modified production of Alice in Wonderland; The Mad Hatter is portrayed by Johnny Depp; who is characterized as‚ wacky‚ insane‚ charming‚ perplexing‚ gentle at times‚ and whimsical. Who is supposed to be Alice’s guide to slaying the Jabberwocky and taking the kingdom back
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