Film Analysis: Girl Interrupted
The movie Girl Interrupted is set in 1967. It is about an 18 year old young lady named Susanna Kaysen. Susanna was not encouraged by her parents to be an individual and she surprises them when she tells them that she does not want to attend college but would rather peruse her passion of being an independent writer.
Susanna ingested an entire bottle of aspirin with a bottle of vodka and claimed that she was just trying to get rid of a headache. After the attempted suicide, Susanna self admits herself to Claymoore hospital. Susanna was uncertain of her goals, has an insecurity of who she is, was self destructive and had unstable relationships. The emotionless acting of the character gives a sense of disconnection that Susanna must be feeling …show more content…
After her attempted suicide, she repeatedly told the doctors in the emergency room that the bones in her hands disappeared. Later while meeting with the family therapist, she said that our bodies do not have to be restricted to earthly psychics and that the bones in her hands disappeared but they reappeared while still in the ER.
Susanna is diagnosed with BPD. BPD, also known as Borderline Personality Disorder is a serious psychiatric illness. BPD is often followed by unstable moods, behavior and relationships. Some people who experience severe BPD can have psychotic episodes. Though most health experts agree that the name “borderline personality disorder” is misleading, a more accurate term does not yet exist. Many people who suffer from BPD may have some of the following …show more content…
(www.psychology.about.com). Self- efficacy is the way a person believes that they can succeed in a specific situation. He thought that self-efficacy beliefs have important effects on an individual’s achievement and that people are more likely to engage in activities they believe they can successfully accomplish, rather than take on tasks they do not believe they can handle. (Friedman & Scustack 2011). Destructive and restrictive behavior along with increased fortification of harmful behavior can often come from loss of self-efficacy. Susanna probably suffered from a loss of self-efficacy, amongst other things.
Our biological factors and genetic inheritance is what influences our “nature”. Experience, exposure and learning are from the influence of external factors after conception, which causes our “nurture”. Both have an effect and influence our human behavior. Susanna was probably influenced by many things to make her mentally unstable at the time of her
Susanna ingested an entire bottle of aspirin with a bottle of vodka and claimed that she was just trying to get rid of a headache. After the attempted suicide, Susanna self admits herself to Claymoore hospital. Susanna was uncertain of her goals, has an insecurity of who she is, was self destructive and had unstable relationships. The emotionless acting of the character gives a sense of disconnection that Susanna must be feeling …show more content…
After her attempted suicide, she repeatedly told the doctors in the emergency room that the bones in her hands disappeared. Later while meeting with the family therapist, she said that our bodies do not have to be restricted to earthly psychics and that the bones in her hands disappeared but they reappeared while still in the ER.
Susanna is diagnosed with BPD. BPD, also known as Borderline Personality Disorder is a serious psychiatric illness. BPD is often followed by unstable moods, behavior and relationships. Some people who experience severe BPD can have psychotic episodes. Though most health experts agree that the name “borderline personality disorder” is misleading, a more accurate term does not yet exist. Many people who suffer from BPD may have some of the following …show more content…
(www.psychology.about.com). Self- efficacy is the way a person believes that they can succeed in a specific situation. He thought that self-efficacy beliefs have important effects on an individual’s achievement and that people are more likely to engage in activities they believe they can successfully accomplish, rather than take on tasks they do not believe they can handle. (Friedman & Scustack 2011). Destructive and restrictive behavior along with increased fortification of harmful behavior can often come from loss of self-efficacy. Susanna probably suffered from a loss of self-efficacy, amongst other things.
Our biological factors and genetic inheritance is what influences our “nature”. Experience, exposure and learning are from the influence of external factors after conception, which causes our “nurture”. Both have an effect and influence our human behavior. Susanna was probably influenced by many things to make her mentally unstable at the time of her