The movie ‘Girl Interrupted’ is a story of a nineteen year old girl (Suzanna) in the 1960’s who‚ after being suspected of trying to commit suicide‚ gets sent away to the Mental Institution (Claymoore) for a short ‘resting period.’ Her psychiatrist had suggested to her that the affair with one of her parents’ friends‚ along with her misconception that chasing a bottle of aspirin with a bottle of vodka is anything other than a suicide attempt‚ could be signs that she may be suffering from ‘borderline
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“Girl‚ Interrupted” – Effects Mental Institutions Have on People Susanna Kaysen states that “[m]ental illness seems to be a communication problem between [two interpreters in your mind]” (pg 139). In Kaysen’s Girl‚ Interrupted‚ Kaysen is put in a mental facility at the age of 18 for a borderline personality disorder. The author is torn throughout the book if mental institutions are helping her and her fellow patients or bringing them down more. Also‚ the author argues that being put in a facility
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In Girl‚ Interrupted author Susanna Kaysen recounts her two year stay at a Boston psychiatric hospital and her experience of what she calls the "parallel universe" of madness‚ she makes the reader consider how thin the line is between ’madness’ and ’sanity’. Susanna describes herself as "sane in an insane world". It does seem like it may be an insane world when we look at how society reacts to something they do not understand‚ fear breeds prejudice‚ "possessed by the devil" "bad‚ and must be isolated
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Girl‚ Interrupted: Borderline Personality Disorder Girl‚ Interrupted is a thought-provoking film that accounts the struggles of a teenage girl‚ Susanna‚ who is trying to come-to-terms with her illness in the 1960s. She is committed to a mental hospital when she tried to commit suicide. The film portrays her relationships with her distant parents and intense relationships with other patients while she is hospitalized. She encounters many troubled
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Girl interrupted is about of girl named Suzanna who has been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder in the 1960s. She is committed to a mental hospital where she becomes friends with a sociopath and is roommates with a pathological liar. The main focus of this paper will be the symptoms‚ diagnosis‚ and treatment that Suzanna goes through in the movie. Borderline personality disorder is characterized by intense shifts in mood lasting only a few hours at a time. This is often accompanied
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Ali Cox Psych 350 Steve Illardi 15 November 2012 Applied Paper For this applied paper I chose to read the novel Girl‚ Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen. In her biography she writes about her time at McLean Hospital‚ a residential psychiatric facility in Massachusetts. She tells about the experiences she had there‚ the people that she met‚ and most importantly her diagnosis; Borderline Personality Disorder. Through reading her novel I was able to see what caused her diagnosis‚ the symptoms that
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Girl‚ Interrupted Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a serious psychiatric illness. People that are diagnosed with this disorder suffer from an intense pattern of affective instability‚ extreme difficulties in interpersonal relationships‚ problems with behavioral or impulse control‚ and disrupted cognitive processes. The estimated prevalence of BPD in the general adult population is about 2%‚ mostly affecting young women. Susanna Kaysen was born on November 11‚ 1948 in Cambridge‚ Massachusetts
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friendships with quite a few of the other teenage girls. Among the patients admitted to her ward‚ Kaysen describes Polly‚ a kind patient with disfiguring‚ self-inflicted burns to her face and body. Lisa‚ another patient‚ entertains Kaysen with her flee attempts and embellished hatred for hospital authorities. Kaysen’s roommate‚ Georgina‚ struggles to keep a relationship with Wade‚ a vicious and unstable boyfriend from another ward‚ who tells the girls apparently strange stories about his father with
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Analysis of Girl Interrupted: Living with Borderline Personality Disorder Mia Rainone University of New Hampshire Analysis of Girl Interrupted: Living with Borderline Personality Disorder “Have you ever confused a dream with life? Or stolen something when you have the cash? Have you ever been blue? Or thought your train moving while sitting still? Maybe I was just crazy. Maybe it was the 60s. Or maybe I was just a girl‚ interrupted” (Wick & Mangold‚ 1999). Girl Interrupted is about
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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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