Girl Interrupted Mental Illness

Girl Interrupted (1999) is a film depicting a youthful female in the 1960s battling with the instability of her own emotional sickness (Mangold, (n.d.)). With the influence of her parents, Susanna Kayson concedes herself into a psychiatric and is later determined to have Borderline Personality Disorder. Her fight demonstrates that those agonies from a psychiatric disorder may not generally meet the cliché picture depicted by the overall population. Other characters in this film did a fabulous depiction of symptoms of sicknesses, for example, an extreme dietary issue, grandiose fantasies, sociopathic propensities, and bipolar disorder. However, the actual diagnoses are unclear. The film demonstrated the individual disappointment and perplexity required in understanding one's disorder in a period when society needed much knowledge into a psychiatric disorder. This paper goes for examining the character's diagnosis regarding the DSM-IV, discussing about the obvious etiology of the
Susanna does not comprehend the seriousness of her suicide endeavor and at first, endeavors to "minimize" its effect, rather embracing a portion of the dispositions and practices of her companions on the inpatient unit until a traumatic ordeal makes her raise doubt about what she had done. The film is a precise depiction on long haul hospitalization in the 1960s, a patient in her condition today would likely be admitted for an intense, short-term hospitalization with ensuing outpatient treatment. It is a decent film for the student to view with a specific end goal to additionally comprehend the hidden difficulties in the treatment of a youthful patient who is attempting to pick up understanding into their mental disorder while facing the test of growing