What Is Shutter Island Mental Illness

Throughout the years' people have struggled to understand how to engage with people with the psychological disorder. To this day there are many misperceptions about the mentally ill and not a lot of people are educated on how to handle a certain situation when they come across a person with a disorder. For someone to be diagnosed and have those symptoms to be classified as a disorder, those deviant behaviors need to cause that person or others around them in distress. Distress is basically a subjective feeling that something is really wrong. This feeling of distress that can lead to harmful dysfunction. When a person becomes dysfunction that person’s ability to work and live will be clearly impaired. In the film Shutter Island, we encounter
The doctors inform him that he was brought to the Ashecliffe Mental Institution on a mission to find the whereabouts of a recently disappeared patient named Rachel Solando. The main psychiatrist, Dr. John Cawley refuses to turn over records to Teddy and his partner Chuck. The two guys later discover that Solando's doctor, Dr. Sheehan had left the island on vacation right after the patient had disappeared. In the beginning, it shows how Teddy believes his wife (Dolores) had died in a fire in their apartment.
Teddy starts to have migraine headaches from the hospital's atmosphere and experiences waking visions of his involvement in the Dachau liberation reprisals. This vivid visions are an example of Teddy’s post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Teddy than tells his partner Chuck about Andrew Laeddis, which in his head was the maintenance guy at his apartment where his wife died during the fire. Teddy claims Laeddis burn the apartments and killed his wife. He believes Laeddis is in that asylum and that’s why he took on the mission of the missing patient. Teddy also says that Laeddis claimed he heard voices that told him to do it.
Here he finds an old colleague named George Noyce, whom teddy claimed throughout the movie was the one who told him about the asylum. George exposed the experiment to Teddy. George claims Teddy is, in fact, Andrew Laeddis. Teddy once again shows signs of having a delusional disorder because of his distressing recollections of the past, distressing dreams of events that he has built in his head. This leads him to feel as if he was reliving the events due to his dissociative flashback episodes. When heading to the cliff to the lighthouse, he went down to save his partner that he believes has fallen off the cliff. After reaching the bottom of the cliff he hallucinates encountering the missing patient “Rachel” in the cave. In which Rachel reveals to Teddy that she was a former psychiatrist after talking to her Teddy was convinced that the asylum has been drugging him through the migraine pills that he’s been taking and also with the new cigarettes Dr. Crawley has provided for him. She also revealed to Teddy about the surgeries that were done in the lighthouse. He becomes certain that that is what is causing him to experience disturbing dreams and horrible migraines. He feels as though everyone in the institution is purposely attempting to keep him as a patient. He experiences hyperarousal after this event. Hyperarousal causes the person to feel easily startled, and feeling tense and on